[Air-L] Research on voice assistants and/or voice interaction

Kalpana Shankar kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie
Mon Jul 30 09:00:00 PDT 2018


Hi Stephanie:

My colleague Ben Cowan and his team are working  on a project on voice
synthesis and assistants: https://cogsis.wordpress.com/team-2/

Kalpana

On 30 July 2018 at 14:41, Winifred Poster <wrposter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Stephanie,
>
>               I’ve been writing about issues of voice, accents,
> nationality, and gender in the labor of digital assistants in a forthcoming
> chapter “Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative
> Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing,” in A Field Guide to DigitalSTS,
> edited by David Ribes and Janet Vertesi, Princeton University Press; and
> “Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch:  Opposing Pressures of Digital
> Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Services,” in Invisible Labor, UC
> Press, 2016.  Let me know if you’d like to see them.
>
>                 Winnie Poster
>
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> > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:08:47 -0400
> > From: Stephanie Tuszynski <stephanietuszynski at gmail.com>
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: [Air-L] Research on voice assistants and/or voice interaction
> >       tech?
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know there's a thread going about AI research, but I'm looking for
> > anything that's out there on voice tech - it can be about assistants,
> voice
> > recognition in general, impacts of voice enabled technology, etc. Trying
> to
> > get a sense of what people are looking at (if anything).
> >
> > TIA
> > Stephanie Tuszynski
> > Director of the Digital Library
> > WHHA
> >
>
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