Vox ex machina : a cultural history of talking machines /

By documenting how voice synthesis developed over the course of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imagination that emerged around new talking machines as they were introduced, this book shows how synthetic voices index the complicated and sometimes paradoxical relationships that people...

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Main Author: Bell, Sarah A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2024].
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Summary:By documenting how voice synthesis developed over the course of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imagination that emerged around new talking machines as they were introduced, this book shows how synthetic voices index the complicated and sometimes paradoxical relationships that people have with increasingly lifelike digital technologies.
Physical Description:x, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262546355
0262546353