Sharper function calling: Reliability has been improved when triggering external functions. Gemini can now more accurately identify when to gather real-time information during a conversation. It can ...

Automotive journalists love to clown on in-car voice assistants, always talking about how useless and pointless they are, but not me. I'm already the kind of guy that says "thanks girl" after asking ...

Conversation isn’t taught in school the way writing and public speaking are, so we have to pick it up on our own—which is one reason there’s such wide variation in how satisfying our conversations are ...

In the world of fiction, dialogue is the lifeblood that pumps through the veins of every great story. It’s the invisible thread that weaves characters together, propels plots forward and breathes life ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...