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Voices Echoing in the Clouds
| Resumo: | Natural language technologies are now able to listen to and process our voices and languages in real time. Voice-controlled digital assistants have emerged as multipurpose human-machine interfaces. We can train them to recognize our particular speech patterns and we can talk to them. Duplex and Alexa “ two voice-controlled cloud-computing services “ are described as instances of the datafication of language and subjectivity, and as archaeological echoes of telephonic technologies. The phantasmatic and acousmatic resonance of a disembodied and ubiquitous voice is the ultimate aural-oral embodiment of the human. Through algorithmic transactions between listening and speaking, the naturalization of computer-mediated communication obscures the deep commodification of symbolic exchange. At the same time, voice and language are revealed as technologies of the human. |
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| Autores principais: | Portela, Manuel |
| Assunto: | voice assistant cloud computing artificial speech grammalepsis aurature John Cayley assistente de voz computação em nuvem fala artificial gramalepsia auratura John Cayley |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Revista de Estudos Literários |
| Resumo: | Natural language technologies are now able to listen to and process our voices and languages in real time. Voice-controlled digital assistants have emerged as multipurpose human-machine interfaces. We can train them to recognize our particular speech patterns and we can talk to them. Duplex and Alexa “ two voice-controlled cloud-computing services “ are described as instances of the datafication of language and subjectivity, and as archaeological echoes of telephonic technologies. The phantasmatic and acousmatic resonance of a disembodied and ubiquitous voice is the ultimate aural-oral embodiment of the human. Through algorithmic transactions between listening and speaking, the naturalization of computer-mediated communication obscures the deep commodification of symbolic exchange. At the same time, voice and language are revealed as technologies of the human. |
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