Pretty soon everything will have a voice. Your phone already has one, and maybe your smart speaker. Your car. Your TV’s remote control. Soon your toaster. Those voices are likely to be both highly reliable and based on a lie.
Can We Trust Machines that Sound Too Much Like Us?
And what about voice assistants that don’t sound like us at all?
May 22, 2019
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Summary.
Human-voiced smart assistants such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana, and the like are proliferating. Before long we’ll be talking with just about anything that has an electric switch, and all these things will be replying back to us in a human voice. These systems are increasingly built to sound like us, with our um’s and ah’s. And that’s not a good thing, explains technologist David Weinberger.
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