Can machines come up with plausible sounds effects for video? Recently, MIT's artificial intelligence (CSAIL) lab created a sort of Turing test that fooled folks into thinking that machine-created ...

Few people can claim they created a music genre, but Michael Winslow, the “Man of 10,000 sound effects” is credited with developing beatboxing. This makes sense. Winslow is a human sound effects ...

Quoting Wes Harrison, otherwise known as ``Mr. Sound Effects,'' isn't that easy. The grammatical concept of ``onomatopoeia'' -- the formation of words by imitating sounds'' -- comes to mind. But even ...

No matter how good your Halloween robot costume looks, your movements still sound like clattering plastic and cardboard. ThinkGeek, the online electronic novelty retailer, remedies that problem with ...