Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? Liz W. Faber focuses on voice-interactive computers, and breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. The book is a decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with looks at the film Her and Siri herself.

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Author: Liz W. Faber
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date: December 2020
Pages: 226
ISBN: 978-1517909765
Print: 1517909767
Kindle: B08QDZT71J
Audience: General interest
Level: Introductory
Category: General interest 

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