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title: "Halcyon Lawrence"
Description: "[Halcyon](http://www.halcyonlawrence.com/) talks us through some of her work on the politics of voice user interfaces: in particular accent bias, 'Siri discipline' and the ways in which smart speakers reproduce and hardwire longstanding forms of linguistic imperialism."
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author: "Machine Listening"
date: "2020-08-31T00:00:00-05:00"
episode_image: "images/ml.gif"
explicit: "no"
hosts: ["james-parker", "joel-stern", "sean-dockray"]
images: ["images/ml.gif"]
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podcast_duration: "62:53"
podcast_file: "https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Halcyon%20Lawrence/Halcyon%20Lawrence%20(18)/Halcyon%20Lawrence%20-%20Halcyon%20Lawrence.mp3"
podcast_bytes: ""
youtube: ""
categories: []
series: []
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transcript: "http://git.metadada.xyz/machinelistening/curriculum/src/branch/master/content/transcript/lawrence.md"
---

