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 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."](https://www.voiceome.org/covid19/index.html) "Hit record and read the following sentences while pinching your nose." "Press record and cough three times." [refs, or maybe a video?]
 
-Touchless covid diagnosis would make life and labor much safer for primary care workers. It would also be destined for automation and embedding into existing audio systems like telehealth, the smart city, and the smart speakers increasingly found at patients' bedsides [ref]. During a pandemic, where underequipped hospitals, testing centers, workplaces and urban centers are vectors of virus transmission, touchlessness becomes a hygienic imperative as well as an economic one. In a world in which we increasingly understand the air itself as toxic, touchlessness tends towards breathlessness too. After all, smart assistants don't breathe [Andrejevic on Kurzweil's flesh phobia?].
+Touchless covid diagnosis would make life and labor much safer for primary care workers. It would also be destined for automation and embedding into existing audio systems like telehealth, the smart city, and the smart speakers increasingly found at patients' bedsides [ref]. During a pandemic, where underequipped hospitals, testing centers, workplaces and urban centers are vectors of virus transmission, touchlessness becomes a hygienic imperative as well as an economic one. In a world in which we increasingly understand the air itself as toxic, touchlessness tends towards breathlessness too. After all, smart assistants don't breathe.
 
-A world of pure touchlessness is a world in which every breath becomes an examination, every word an interrogation. Do you have COVID [ref]? Have you been displaying psychotic tendencies [ref]? Are you happy or sad [ref]? Local or foreign [ref]? Were you *really* in quarantine for the last 14 days [ref]? How will we determine what questions can be asked of a voice? Who will decide? And with what degree of scrutiny? What will become of the freedom of speech itself [Abu Hamdan]?
+A world of pure touchlessness is a world in which every breath becomes an examination, every word an interrogation. Do you have COVID? Have you been displaying psychotic tendencies? Are you happy or sad? Local or foreign? Were you *really* in quarantine for the last 14 days? How will we determine what questions can be asked of a voice? Who will decide? And with what degree of scrutiny? What will become of [the freedom of speech itself](https://soundcloud.com/forensic-architecture-1/the-freedom-of-speech-itself)?
 
 ## Wakewordlessness
 
-Wakewords were never going to last. They were always a trojan horse, designed to inveigle voice assistants into our homes and machine listening into our daily existence via a fantasy of consent. Their tendency is to disappear. In the future, machine listening will be wakewordless. Much of it is already. The smart city in particular is always listening; though the distribution of this listening is heavily stratified by, for instance, race and class [[Shakur](https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/gun-violence-police-shotspotter/)]. Urban gunshot detection systems like Shot Spotter, and the microphones embedded in streetlamps [ref Aus] and traffic lights [ref], never sleep. Only personal devices retain the pretense. And not for long.
+Wakewords were never going to last. They were always a trojan horse, designed to inveigle voice assistants into our homes and machine listening into our daily existence via a fantasy of consent. Their tendency is to disappear. In the future, machine listening will be wakewordless. Much of it is already. The smart city in particular is always listening; though the distribution of this listening is heavily stratified by, for instance, [race and class](https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/gun-violence-police-shotspotter/)]. Urban gunshot detection systems like Shot Spotter, and the microphones embedded in streetlamps [ref Aus] and traffic lights [ref], never sleep. Only personal devices retain the pretense. And not for long.
 
 In response to the pandemic, the latest OS update to Apple Watch will include a feature that uses "machine-learning models to determine motion, which appears to be hand-washing, and then use audio to confirm the sound of running water or squishing soap in your hands.” All this with a view to helping you "keep going for the amount of time recommended by global health organisations." [ref]