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Machine Voices: A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence

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How the human voice must be understood, framed, and transformed to fit the conceptual formats required for artificial intelligence.

What does it mean to know a voice, and how is that knowledge troubled through attempts to ­measure, analyze, and generate it? In Machine Voices, Edward Kang explores the sonic beliefs and practices that orbit voice AI technologies. He resists the paralysis of the increasingly ambiguous term “artificial intelligence” and examines it as a cultural hypothesis of hu...