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Author Bell, Sarah A., author.

Title Vox ex machina : a cultural history of talking machines / Sarah A. Bell
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged)
Summary "By documenting how voice synthesis developed over the course of the 20th 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 30, 2024)
Subject Speech processing systems -- History
Speech synthesis -- History
Speech synthesis -- Social aspects
Voice -- Social aspects
Digital media -- Social aspects
Signal processing -- Digital techniques -- History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023058837
ISBN 9780262375870
0262375877
9780262375887
0262375885
Other Titles Cultural history of talking machines