Machine Voices
A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence
$134.50
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
How the human voice must be understood, framed, and transformed to fit the conceptual formats required for artificial intelligence.
What does it mean to know a voice, and how is that knowledge troubled through attempts to measure, analyze, and generate it? In Machine Voices, Edward Kang explores the sonic beliefs and practices that orbit voice AI technologies. He resists the paralysis of the increasingly ambiguous term “artificial intelligence” and examines it as a cultural h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262054720 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262054728 |
| Author: | Edward B. Kang |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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“This book is a wide-ranging tour of the machinic voicescape, and Edward Kang is an expert guide, taking us behind the facades of computers that listen and unsettling what ‘listening’ and ‘talking’ even mean.”
—Nick Seaver, Associate Professor, Tufts University; author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
Edward B. Kang
Edward B. Kang is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Kang codirects a working group titled Machine Listening in the Age of AI as well as the AI & Society group at the Institute for Public Knowledge.
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