The first crazy leaps into a Star Trek future just showed up in the latest stable build of Chrome. As of now, "Conversational Search" has now rolled out, which means that Chrome can now remember what you're searching for if you ask a couple of questions in a row. Read More >>

Here's an interesting tidbit. 9to5Mac got hold of a supposed leaked email from WhatsApp sent to a developer in Hong Kong asking for the Chinese translation of "push-to-talk". Is WhatsApp going to add walkie-talkie-like voice blips soon? Read More >>

It's the future, and that being the case, you're going to want to talk to your smartphone and have it make heads or tails of what you're saying. Getting that to work can be a pretty tough job however, unless your phone can learn like a human. And as Wired explains, that's exactly what Google's Jelly Bean operating system does. Read More >>

The Xbox rumours are flowing thick and fast at the moment, with the latest report stating that Microsoft's going all-in with voice recognition, allowing you to simply walk in the room and shout "Xbox on" to fire the thing up. It's even going to go all Siri-like on us too, let's just hope it's a tad more useful in the UK than Apple's poor-excuse-for-butler. Read More >>

Apple's rather annoying personal butler is coming to the Mac, if Apple's latest job posting is any indication anyway. Sounds like Siri's going to be able to interact with and control pretty much any app on a Mac. But would that really be a good thing? Read More >>

Voice control has been the trend in phones for a while now, but it's not content to just stay there. The newest Chrome Beta 25 is introducing a Web Speech API, which means a talk-y future is on the horizon, hopefully. Read More >>

The Facebook Messenger application is getting an update for Android and iOS so that users can now send voice messages up to one-minute long to their friends. Just a few weeks after Facebook went after Snapchat with a clone app, it's modified Messenger to be a clone for Apple's iMessage. Read More >>

Keypads are quickly becoming a legacy techonology thanks to a collaboration between LG and Google TV. The company announced today that it is expanding Google TV functionality to seven of its 2013 models. Read More >>

Of course we spend a lot of time talking into our phones, but more and more we're also spending a lot of time talking to them. For the most part they tend to be pretty good at simply retrieving data, but soon they might be able to figure out your mood as well. Read More >>

One of the less touted features of the iPhone 5, but something that could really make a huge difference to call quality (you do actually call people still, right?), is HD voice calling (wideband audio). Unfortunately, not all networks support HD voice, so which ones will in the UK, and where can you get it on your shiny new iPhone 5? Read More >>

Even Apple's Siri, arguably the cutting-edge of synthesised computer voices, sounds incredibly fake. To the point where you'd think that field of research has only been around for about 10 years. But shockingly it dates back to the 1930s—80+ years ago! Read More >>

The shyness of the nation has been exposed by new data from communications regulator Ofcom, which has found that we'd much rather communicate by impersonal text message than go to the effort of making an actual voice call. Read More >>

Oh dear, O2's massive outage is rolling over into its second day and there's currently no definite timescale for a full fix. Apparently the issue is being caused by a central network fault, which prevents people's phone numbers registering on the network. O2's managed to restore its 2G network, so if you're on O2, disable your 3G for the time being. Slow data is better than no data. Read More >>

O2 has launched a voice and messaging app under the odd name of Tu Me, which offers users of all mobile networks an alternate, free way to make and receive voice calls. Read More >>

Motorola created a bit of a stir yesterday when it released a video comparing Android's Voice Actions on the Atrix 2 with iOS's Siri on an iPhone 4S. Fanboys screamed foul in the YouTube comments, so we decided to test it out for ourselves. And yes, there's a very clear winner. Read More >>