“The research reveals that there have always been people who perceived a talking machine as a step toward the automation –or even the substitution– of human beings. An article in Redbook magazine in 1955, for example, cited experts who worried that marriage rates might decline if “many functions of the wife are being usurped by machines.””
Vox ex Machina. A Cultural History of Talking Machines
From early robots to toys like the iconic Speak & Spell to Apple’s Siri, Vox ex Machina tells the fascinating story of how scientists and engineers developed voices for machines during t…
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