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A decade ago, an Apple executive named Phil Schiller had a message for people using computers that were more than five years old. “This is really sad,” he said, with apparent sincerity, to scattered ...

When you talk to computerized assistants like Siri or Alexa, they reply in voices that sound very human. But how do computers, smartphones and apps actually talk like a person? They use a technology ...