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Author Faber, Liz, author.

Title The computer's voice : from Star trek to Siri / Liz W. Faber
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents Amniotic space : textual origins of the acousmatic computer -- Reproducing the mothership : doubling, parody, and the maternal figure in space -- Programming patriarchs : new Hollywood and the start of the digital age -- Sibling rivalry : the post-IBM turn -- Good secretaries and bad housewives : femininity in the digital age -- Behind the screens : Siri and the acousmĂȘtre
Summary "A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2020)
Subject Speech processing systems -- History
Speech synthesis -- Psychological aspects
Intelligent personal assistants (Computer software)
Voice -- Psychological aspects
Mass media and women.
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics
psycholinguistics.
Intelligent personal assistants (Computer software)
Mass media and women
Psycholinguistics
Speech processing systems
Voice -- Psychological aspects
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020022369
ISBN 1452964122
9781452964133
1452964130
9781452964126