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Machine Voices: A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence (Edward B. Kang)
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What assumptions about speaking and listening are built into a machine that claims to understand a voice?
Edward B. Kang investigates how artificial intelligence turns voices into measurable, comparable, and reproducible signals.
The book moves from the histories and framing of voice to machine listening, engineered emotion, and synthetic speech.
Kang connects these technical practices with the economic, social, and cultural forces that shape what a system recognizes.
His concept of the machine voice opens a debate about whose voices count, which standards guide listening, and how technology changes our understanding of human expression.
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