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Sarah A. Bell

Sarah A. Bell is a writer and professor who studies the impacts of information technologies on society. She is the author of Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines. An open access edition of the book is available for download here.

How Talking Machines Got Their Voices

From the cockpit to consumer tech, synthetic voices shed light on gender biases

April 4, 2025

Stephen Hawking’s Eternal Voice

The astrophysicist’s synthesized voice conveyed a self

January 9, 2025