From 0f8fcd34f8a2a930673cfb46fc03c083a3113c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 05:25:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md' --- content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md b/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md index cdf3d11..9e692bc 100644 --- a/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md +++ b/content/topic/listening-with-the-pandemic.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ There is a profound and ramifying "thoughtlessness" here: at once ethical, polit ## Touchlessness -Most of us will experience machine listening as an interface. Say goodbye to spring-mounted keys and clicking mice, maybe soon even the quiet tap of fingers on capacitive glass. "Alexa," we command - or is it ask? - into an airy, expectant atmosphere. Touchlessness refers first to this invisibility of interface, but it is also "social distancing", remote work, standing no less than 2m apart in a queue for toilet paper, and, in the case of corona voice diagnostics, the idea that computational systems might determine the presence of the virus from the sound of a person's speech or cough. +Most of us will experience machine listening as an interface. Say goodbye to spring-mounted keys and clicking mice, maybe soon even the quiet tap of fingers on capacitive glass. "Alexa," we command - or is it ask? - into an airy, expectant atmosphere. ![Touchlessness](audio:static/audio/andrejevic-touchlessness.mp3) refers first to this invisibility of interface, but it is also "social distancing", remote work, standing no less than 2m apart in a queue for toilet paper, and, in the case of corona voice diagnostics, the idea that computational systems might determine the presence of the virus from the sound of a person's speech or cough. There's no evidence yet that such a thing is possible, but many organisations are trying [Voca.ai, Cambridge, MIT, Swizterland, Sonde, Soniphi], and they are thirsty for data. "Donate your voice." "Hit record and read the following sentences while pinching your nose." "Press record and cough three times." [refs, or maybe a video?]