Tech Break

Feb 16th 2016

Tech Break 2322

Robot Voices Enter the Uncanny Valley

John Markoff talks about computerized voices avoid the uncanny valley

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Jason Howell, Megan Morrone, and Jason Abbruzzese from Mashable talk to John Markoff, Science reporter from the New York Times, about how computerized voices for Siri, Alexa, and our other digital devices avoid the uncanny valley of seeming too real.

Full episode available at twit.tv/tnt/1450

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