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Robots with Bad Accents: Living with Synthetic Speech
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 41, Number 3, June 2008
- pp. 209-214
- Article
- Additional Information
Synthetic speech technologies have a profound impact on how we think about and interact with computers. This text discusses parts I and II of the “Make Language Project,” a trilogy on the cultural fallout of machine generated speech as a conduit for reconsidering prejudices in synthetic speech production and humanoid robot design.