April 2: Contemporary Vocal Interfaces

4-5pm: Skype with Halcyon M. Lawrence

• Adelheid Voshkul, “Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies,” Social Studies of Science 34:3 (2004) [you’ll be prompted to enter a username (student) and password (seecritfilez)].
• Andrea L. Guzman, “Voices in and of the Machine: Source Orientation Toward Mobile Virtual Assistants,” Computers in Human Behavior 90 (2019): 343-50.
• Halcyon M. Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “When I Talk to Siri,” Flash Readings 4 (September 6, 2017) {podcast: 10:14}.
• Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Inauthentically Speaking: Speech Technology, Accent Bias and Digital Imperialism,” SIGCIS, Computer History Museum, March 2017 {video: 1:26 > 17:16}
• Lauren McCarthy, LAUREN. A human smart home intelligence (review press, too).
• By 11:59pm on Monday, April 1, please post to this Google Doc a question you’d like to ask our guest speaker.

Supplemental:

• Meryl Alper, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017).
• Emily Apter, “Shibboleth: Policing by Ear and Forensic Listening in Projects by Lawrence Abu Hamdan,” October 156 (Spring 2016): 101-16. See also Hamdan’s website, especially his “Aural Contract” and “The Whole Truth” projects.
• Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, The New Organs [an interactive project on eavesdropping machines and surveillance capitalism] (2019).
• Michel Chion, Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Duke, 2016).
• Karin Bijsterveld, “Dissecting Sound: Speaker Identification at the Stasi and Sonic Ways of Knowing,” Hearing Modernity (2018).
• Trevor Cox, Now You’re Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Counterpoint, 2018).
• Stephanie Dinkins.
• Brian Dumaine, “It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech,” Fortune (October 24, 2018).
• Wes Goatley, “Chthonic Rites.”
• Larry Greenemeier, “Alexa, How Do We Take Our Relationship to the Next Level?” Scientific American (April 26, 2018).
• Nicole He, “Fifteen Unconventional Uses of Voice Technology,” ITP, NYU, 2018; and ENHANCE.COMPUTER (works only in Chrome).
• Jason Kincaid, “A Brief History of ASR,” descript (July 12, 2018).
• “Klatt’s Last Tape: The History of Speech Synthesis,” Radio 4.
• Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Siri Disciplines,” in Your Computer is on Fire, eds., Marie Hicks, Ben Peters, Kavita Philips and Tom Mullaney (MIT Press, forthcoming 2019).
• Halcyon Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “Siri’s Progeny: Voice and the Future of Interaction Design,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2016.
• Jürg Lehni, Apple Talk (2002 / 2007).
• Golan Levin, “Speech References,” Interactivity and Computation, Carnegie Mellon University (2018).
• Xiaochang Li and Mara Mills, “Vocal Features: From Voice Identification to Speech Recognition by Machine,” Technology and Culture (forthcoming 2019).
• Lauren McCarthy, us+.
• Luke Munn, “Alexa and the Intersectional Interface,” _Angles (June 2018).
• Quynh N. Nguyen, Ahn Ta, and Victor Prybutok, “An Integrated Model of Voice-User Interface Continuance Intention: The Gender Effect,” International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2018).
• Winifred Poster, “Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing,” in digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies, eds., David Ribes and Janet Vertesi (Princeton University Press, forthcoming April 2019).
• Winifred Poster, “The Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch: Opposing Pressures of Digital Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Services” in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World, eds. Marion G. Crain, Winifred R. Poster, and Miriam A. Cherry (University of California Press, 2016): 87-111.
• Emily Saltz, “Neither Her Not Hal: Considering Access and Representation in the Next Generation of Speech Technology,” Processing Community Day, Los Angeles, 2019.
• Thom Scott-Phillips, Speaking our Minds: Why Human Communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to Make it Special (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
• Craig S. Smith, “Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t,” New York Times (May 10, 2018).
• Superflux, “Our Friends Electric.”
• Dave Tompkins, How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks (Stop Smiling Books, 2011).
• Mickey Vallee, “Biometrics, Affect, Autoaffection and the Phenomenological Voice,” Subjectivity 11:2 (2018): 161-76.
• Bruce N. Walker and Michael A. Nees, “Theory of Sonification” in The Sonification Handbook, eds. Thomas Hermann, Andy Hunt, and John G. Neuhoff (Logos Publishing, 2011).