Sarah Bell: Alexa’s Ancestors

29 Apr 2025 • 36 min • EN
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AI generated voices like Alexa and Siri are now so much a part of our everyday experience that disembodied chatbots that talk are edging ever closer to being accepted as real. And not for the first time: attempts to generate artificial human voices date back over two centuries.

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