The Weirding Module - It’s Easy To Tell the Depth of a Well 28.01.2023

Amidst all the hype around voice cloning, deep fakes, AI musical artists both virtual and resurrected it's hard to discern what's real and what's industry bragging. To try understand what's at play I take a look at the long history of voice synthesis and how it has been adopted by artists and musicians and most importantly how disabled people adopted and and came to identify with synthetic voices.

Largely assembled from the original tech demos from both established tech companies and tech start ups showcasing their abilities these audio documents are often explanatory but also strangely poetic. Most interestingly these disembodied and alien voices were often given names, have characters ascribed to them and are even made to speak in the first person. No matter how s...

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