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Apr 2021
28m 37s

In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice

Mit Technology Review
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Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines we’ve been musing about for decades. In this episode, we explore how machines learn to communicate—and what it means for the humans on the other end of the conversation.    We meet: Susan C. Bennett, vo ... Show More
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