A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increas

An examination of more than sixty years of successes and failures in developing technologies that allow computers to understand human spoken language. Stanley K

"A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk"--

How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech--whether from human or machine--evokes.

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are langua