Hanna Rosin: Hey. It’s Hanna, again. So last year, we did an episode with the sound designer behind The Zone of Interest, which ended up winning the Oscar for Best Sound. We thought we’d do a similar ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their lips correctly. Even the most advanced humanoids make little more than ...

When it comes to ultra-humanlike Westworld-style robots, one of their most defining features are lips that move in perfect ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

We often hear about alumni from Berklee College of Music in Boston winning Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys. But did you know there was a select group of students who helped make sounds for robots ...

What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

Amazon wants to put a robot inside your house. The Seattle-based web juggernaut is working on a “top secret” project to develop its first domestic robot, according to a report. Details are spotty on ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...