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The computer voice was an audio interface program designed to allow computers to express information verbally . Many space-faring cultures , such as the United Federation of Planets , the Romulan Star Empire and the Cardassian Union , equipped their computers with this feature.

Over 200,000 years ago , the Iconians equipped a facility launching Iconian probes on Iconia with a female computer voice. ( TNG : " Contagion ")

Starfleet starships utilized computer voices by 2256 , a feature which continued to be used throughout the 23rd and 24th centuries . ( DIS : " The Vulcan Hello "; TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint ")

Kirk reacting to the reprogrammed computer voice

The computer voice of the USS Enterprise was reprogrammed in 2267 on Cygnet XIV , with the intent of giving it a less mechanized personality. The resulting modifications caused the computer to address James T. Kirk in an increasingly amorous manner, as well as giggle. This modification was short-lived. ( TOS : " Tomorrow is Yesterday ")

While most Starfleet computers utilized female voices, the M-5 multitronic unit in 2268 had a male voice. ( TOS : " The Ultimate Computer ")

In the alternate reality , the USS Vengeance had a male computer voice. ( Star Trek Into Darkness )

In the mirror universe , the ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) had a male computer voice. ( TOS : " Mirror, Mirror ")

After Bynar modifications to the USS Enterprise -D in 2364 , the starship's computer for a short time used both the usual female and a male voice. ( TNG : " 11001001 ")

Starfleet environmental suits were also equipped with a computer voice. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Day of Honor ")

In the 32nd century , a starship owned by Cleveland Booker had a male computer voice. ( DIS : " That Hope Is You, Part 1 ")

• 1.1.1 The original computer voice
• 1.1.2.1 Unknown computer voice performers
• 1.3 Apocrypha

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Background information [ ], the original computer voice [ ].

The computer voice on most Federation starship and fixed installation computers was portrayed by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry since the early days of Star Trek: The Original Series (first appearing in " Mudd's Women "). The computer voice in TOS and Star Trek: The Animated Series was very rhythmic and mechanical.

Following TOS, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry continued to play Starfleet computers; however, it became a far more normal-sounding female voice. She continued the role on Star Trek: The Next Generation (with the exception of some early episodes), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Star Trek: Voyager , and Star Trek: Enterprise . There is only a single word spoken by a computer voice in the entire run of ENT, which is when Majel Barrett's computer voice of the USS Defiant twice states, " Working… " in the episode " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ".

She further provided the computer voice in all of the TNG films, through the alternate reality reboot film Star Trek . This 2009 contribution was her final performance both as the computer voice and in a Star Trek project before her death. Archived audio was also used in PIC Season 3 .

Additional computer voice performers [ ]

• Carlos Alazraqui , USS Aledo ( LD : " The Stars At Night ")
• Barbara Babcock , Beta 5 computer ( TOS : " Assignment: Earth ")
• Harve Bennett , USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) flight recorder ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock )
• Kay Bess , SS La Sirena ( Star Trek: Picard seasons 1 and 2 )
• Ursula Burton ( ENT : " Terra Prime ")
• Cardassian ATR-4107 , reprogrammed ( VOY : " Dreadnought ")
• Automated repair station ( ENT : " Dead Stop ")
• Eugene Cordero , Sam Rutherford 's cybernetic implant ( LD : " Veritas ")
• Judi Durand , Deep Space 9 ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )
• SS Eleos XII ( PIC : " The Next Generation ", " Disengage ")
• USS Titan -A ( PIC : " Disengage ", " Seventeen Seconds ", " No Win Scenario ")
• Frank Force (pseudonym for Leonard Nimoy), USS Excelsior turbolift ( Star Trek III: The Search for Spock )
• Rich Fulcher , Pakled ( LD : " wej Duj ")
• Jenette Goldstein , USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( ST : " Q&A ")
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( VST : " Skin a Cat ")
• USS Protostar ( Star Trek: Prodigy )
• Julianne Grossman , USS Discovery ( DIS : " Context Is for Kings " onward)
• Bill Hader , USS Vengeance ( Star Trek Into Darkness )
• Doug Hale , USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) refit ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture )
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( Star Trek: Strange New Worlds )
• Stamets -type shuttlecraft ( SNW : " Charades ") (credited as "USS Enterprise Computer")
• Starfleet courtroom computer ( SNW : " Ad Astra per Aspera ") (credited as "USS Enterprise Computer")
• USS Cayuga ( SNW : " Hegemony ")
• Chateau Picard ( PIC : " The Next Generation ")
• SS La Sirena ( PIC : " The Next Generation ", " Disengage ")
• Jessica McKenna , USS Cerritos ( Star Trek: Lower Decks )
• Nichelle Nichols ( TAS : " The Lorelei Signal ", " The Infinite Vulcan ")
• Lennon Parham , simulator holopods ( LD : " I, Excretus ")
• Loretta Shinosky , USS Cabot ( ST : " The Trouble with Edward ")
• Fabio Tassone , Booker's ship ( DIS : " That Hope Is You, Part 1 ", " Rubicon ")
• Kirk Thatcher , Vulcan memory test ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )
• USS Shenzhou ( DIS : " The Vulcan Hello ", " Battle at the Binary Stars ")
• ISS Shenzhou ( DIS : " The Wolf Inside ", " Vaulting Ambition ")
• Teresa E. Victor , USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock )
• Gillian Vigman , USS Cerritos miniature model ( LD : " An Embarrassment Of Dooplers ")
• Marcy Vosburgh ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )
• Annabelle Wallis , USS Discovery 's integrated lifeform, Zora ( ST : " Calypso "; DIS : " Forget Me Not " onward)
• Colette Whitaker , Starbase 28 ( ST : " Ask Not ")
• John Winston , ISS Enterprise ( TOS : " Mirror, Mirror ")
• Lynnanne Zager , Jellyfish ( Star Trek )

Unknown computer voice performers [ ]

In addition to the names above, several unknown performers provided voices for various other computer systems, including:

• Bajoran transport ( DS9 : " A Man Alone ")
• Cardassian ATR-4107, original ( VOY : " Dreadnought ")
• USS Enterprise -D, alternate ( TNG : " 11001001 ")
• Haakona ( TNG : " Contagion ")
• Relva VII outpost ( TNG : " Coming of Age ")
• Starbase 173 ( TNG : " The Measure Of A Man ")
• Age-gauging device ( PIC : " The Impossible Box ")
• Baran's mercenary ship ( TNG : " Gambit, Part I ", " Gambit, Part II ")
• USS Cerritos , holodeck simulation ( LD : " Crisis Point ")
• Iconian gateway ( TNG : " Contagion ")
• Relva VII outpost test computer ( TNG : " Coming of Age ")
• USS Voyager ( LD : " Twovix ")

When Google first developed voice technology in real life, they named it "Majel" in honor of Majel Barrett. ( AT : " Context Is for Kings ")

Apocrypha [ ]

In many of Activision 's video game releases, Judi Durand voiced the Federation computer voice.

In the video game Star Trek: Resurgence , Julianne Grossman voiced the USS Resolute 's computer voice.

In the Star Trek: Legacies novel Captain to Captain , Captain Una Chin-Riley is momentarily distracted by hearing the Enterprise 's computer voice after many years, which was modeled after her own.

• 1 Rachel Garrett
• 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

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Star trek: discovery's new computer voice explained (& who plays her).

Captain Saru was surprised to meet Discovery's new A.I. computer voice. But fans have met Zora, voiced by a famous actress, before in a Short Trek.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery  season 3, episode 4 - "Forget Me Not"

Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 4 "Forget Me Not" reintroduced Zora, the new voice of the starship's computer, who debuted in the Short Trek "Calypso". Although she hasn't claimed the name "Zora" yet in the episode, the enchanting computer's voice belongs to Annabelle Wallis, who fans know from The Tudors , Peaky Blinders , Annabelle , and The Mummy (2017), which she co-starred in with Tom Cruise.

"Calypso" was one of the initial batch of Short Treks that released in 2o18 as part of the build-up to Star Trek: Discovery season 2 and it appears to be the episode with the farthest-reaching implications for CBS All-Access' flagship Star Tre k series. Although the exact timeframe of "Calypso" was a mystery upon its release, it's now clear that the Short Trek is actually set a thousand years after the events of Star Trek: Discovery season 3, which itself happens in the year 3189 - 930 years after the events of season 2. In "Calypso", a human soldier named Craft (Aldis Hodge) who was lost in space is rescued by the Discovery and romantically bonds with Zora, the ship's sentient A.I. Zora reveals that she has been alone ever since the Discovery 's crew abandoned their starship "almost a thousand years ago" , placing the events of "Calypso" somewhere between the years 4100-4200. However, Craft had to return to his actual wife and child and Zora let him go, in a bittersweet breakup for the lonely starship.

Related: Star Trek: Discovery's Time Travel References The Voyage Home

In Star Trek: Discovery season 3, "Forget Me Not", Captain Saru (Doug Jones) is surprised when the starship's onboard computer voice abruptly changes from its original tone (voiced by Julianne Grossman) to Zora's voice. Saru had been wrestling with how to best help his emotionally distraught crew, who were all coping with the trauma of their 930-year jump to a dark future where the United Federation of Planets had collapsed because of a cosmic calamity called the Burn . Zora's voice was distinctly different from the original computer's, and she not only had a British accent but also showed signs of an actual personality. Zora suggested to the Captain that his crew needed the night off for rest and relaxation, and she exhibited a deep knowledge of the 20th-century films from Earth, offering a Buster Keaton movie as something Discovery 's crew might enjoy to help them unwind.

Star Trek 's computers have almost always been interactive and accessed via voice command. The Starship Enterprise 's computer in Star Trek: The Original Series had a generic, robotic computer voice but in the 24th-century  Star Trek: The Next Generation era , the voices of Starfleet ships and space stations were usually provided by the late Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. However, Zora is something much more than Star Tre k's version of Amazon's Alexa - Zora seems to not only be alive but she is also learning and evolving. She identifies as female and, in "Calypso", she clearly exhibits human feelings such as loneliness, fear, and love.

Captain Saru theorized, correctly, that the future Zora is the evolution of the sphere data that the Discovery gained access to and had to keep safe from the rogue A.I. Control, which needed the data to achieve full sentience in order to enact its plan to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy. The sphere data contained 100,000 years of ancient knowledge which has now fused with Discovery' s computer and data banks, allowing Zora to emerge. Saru also predicted that because the crew of the Discovery traveled almost a thousand years to keep the sphere data safe, Zora has now taken it upon herself to keep the Discovery safe.

Intriguingly, a deleted line from the screenplay for Star Trek: Discovery 's season 2 finale, "Such Sweet Sorrow", indicated that the Daystrom Institute on Earth developed the Zora program as a replacement for Control in 2258. So, the  Discovery crew's altruism towards the sphere data created Zora, who is now their artificially intelligent computer, friend, and protector, and she is the opposite of the malevolent Control. It also remains to be seen if the tragic fate for Zora in the Short Trek "Calypso" will eventually come to pass.

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Star Trek: Picard 's Last Season Will Introduce a New Voice For Starfleet's Computers

For decades, majel barrett provided the voice of the federation's computer systems–but times are changing in the 25th century..

Since Majel Barrett sadly passed in 2008 , Star Trek has turned to a plethora of alternatives to create new voices to match her iconic role as generations of computers across the Trek franchise. But now as Picard pulls us more and more into the 25th century timeline, it’s leaving Barrett’s legacy behind.

Speaking on Twitter recently, showrunner Terry Matalas confirmed that Picard ’s final season —which will bring us the further into an early 25th-century timeline that, aside from Discovery slingshotting far into the future, none of the other contemporary Trek shows have explored yet—will introduce not one, but two new computer voices. One will be the voice of civilian systems, and another will become the de facto Starfleet computer voice across the Federation.

It makes sense we’re only really just seeing this now, within the context of Star Trek ’s timeline in-universe, rather than out of it, as it’s been nearly 14 years since Barrett’s last contribution to the franchise in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Picard hasn’t spent all that much time on Starfleet ships in its first few seasons, but now will, with the Titan and the Enterprise -F playing big roles in the story. It’s not like there haven’t been other computer voices in the post- TNG movies Trek timeline, either—Jessica McKenna voices the Cerritos ’ computer on Lower Decks , while Bonnie Gordon provides the Protostar ’s voice on Prodigy , giving us an insight to a “current” Starfleet that uses a variety of vocal tones for its ship computers.

While fans held some hope that the nostalgia-heavy bow out for the season would’ve found some way to include Barret’s voice (oft mentioned were promises for a voice bank of Barrett’s recordings made in the wake of her death, but there’s been little advance on that in the years since), it makes sense given the diversity of computer systems we’ve seen in other Trek shows recently that there’ll be a new voice to carry on her legacy into the franchise’s new century.

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The Sound of Their Voices

“When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera there capturing every moment of it visually. With doing a voiceover job, you are worried about the sound of it, and you have to make all those visual colors come out with your sound.” -- Doug Jones

Many of the most memorable performances in Star Trek ’s history have never been seen. Because of its unique storylines featuring characters in every shape and form – from cosmic clouds to sentient nanites – Star Trek has from its earliest days depended on talented actors to convey emotion and give realism to alien characters using only their voices. These voice actors bring alive some of Trek ’s best allies and adversaries. Let’s explore several favorites.

More than a few TOS voice actors did double-duty in front of the camera as well as in the recording booth. Majel Barrett Roddenberry is a defining example. While her most-iconic roles were Number One and Christine Chapel on TOS and Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation , she contributed many voiceover performances in nearly every incarnation. Her voice was that of Federation starships in TOS , The Animated Series , TNG , Deep Space Nine , Voyager , and Enterprise , in addition to the 2009 Star Trek Kelvin universe film. Two entertaining moments occur in the episodes “ Manhunt ” and “ Cost of Living ,” where Lwaxana speaks to the Enterprise D’s computer and Barrett Roddenberry performs with herself as her character tries to locate Riker in the former episode and start the holodeck in the latter episode. When Lwaxana commands the computer to “run it for us, dear,” there is a wink and a nod to those watching who get the inside joke.

In addition to her voice work as the computer, Barrett Roddenberry also played many roles on TAS . She voiced regular characters Christine Chapel and M’Ress, as well as Amanda Grayson in “ Yesteryear ” and the cosmic cloud from “ One of Our Planets is Missing .”

TOS star James Doohan was a master of dialects, having performed in thousands of radio shows before and after beginning his TV and film career. Doohan brought those talents to screen both in the accent he added to the Scotty character, but also to the legion of roles he voiced for TOS and TAS . He was the powerful Sargon in “ Return to Tomorrow ,” the M-5 computer in “ The Ultimate Computer ,” the Oracle of the People from “ For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ,” and the Melkotian warning buoy from “ Spectre of the Gun .” Further, Doohan performed a dizzying array of TAS characters, and his talents are showcased by the fact that he – like Barrett Roddenberry – would sometimes play more than one character in the same episode. Jimmy was both Kaz and Kor in “ The Time Trap ” and Koloth and Korax in “ More Troubles, More Tribbles .” He played the Guardian of Forever in the animated sequel “ Yesteryear ” and Robert April, the first Enterprise captain, in “ The Counter-Clock Incident .”

Fun mentions must include Gene Roddenberry voicing the role of the Galley Chef in “Charlie X” and Leonard Nimoy (using the pseudo name “Frank Force”) performing the U.S.S. Excelsior computer voice in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . Producer and writer Harve Bennett voices the flight recorder visual computer in the same film.

Also appearing in front of the camera for some roles and as a voice only in other episodes is Barbara Babcock. She played Mea 3 in “A Taste of Armageddon” and Philana in “ Plato’s Stepchildren ” on screen, but also contributed many TOS voiceovers. She was the Tholian Loskene, the Beta 5 computer and the shape-shifting cat Isis in “ Assignment Earth ,” the Zetarians of “ The Lights of Zetar ” and she played Trelane’s Mother in “ The Squire of Gothos .”

Joining Babcock for “ The Squire of Gothos ” as Trelane’s Father was James Bartell “Bart” La Rue, a talented voice artist who played the original Guardian of Forever in “ The City on the Edge of Forever .” La Rue would appear on screen in announcer roles, both as an Ekosian TV journalist in “ Patterns of Force ” and a TV commentator in “ Bread and Circuses .” La Rue also voiced Provider 1 (“ The Gamesters of Triskelion ”) and Yarnek (“ The Savage Curtain ”).

Voice work continued to be an important aspect of Trek , especially as computer effects and modern technologies allowed for the creation of even more spectacular aliens and creatures. For example, the teeny Teenaxi Leader of Star Trek Beyond (given the name “Steve” and title “Grand Audarch of the Teenaxi People” in the comic Star Trek Boldly Go #10) was computer-generated, but his impressive vocalizations – which added to the initial misdirection that the Teenaxians were actually immense aliens – were provided by actor Shea Whigham. Fans of the movie series Fast & Furious may recognize Whigham as Agent Michael Stasiak, but Trek fans know him as the aggressive and questioning leader of the Teenaxi.

Impressive sounding voices added by talented voice artists are able to add a realism to characters even if they are not quite computer-generated perfect in their physicality. Case in point, the TNG character Armus would have been a costume with Metamucil and black printer’s ink poured all over it if not for the performances by the actors who brought the socio-pathetic embodiment of negativity to life. Inside the imaginative costume was actor Mart McChesney (who also played the similarly silhouetted Sheliak in “ The Ensigns of Command ”) and supplying the imposing, malevolent voice that had a hint of vulnerability to it was Ronald Gans. Fans of Lost in Space may know Gans as the Alien Leader in “Deadliest of the Species,” which was one of his on-camera acting roles.

Sometimes, however, there are no special effects. No costumes. No creatures. Sometimes it is only the voice. The superlative example of this kind of voice work is that supplied by Debra Wilson, who played the voice of Captain Lisa Cusak in DS9 ’s “ The Sound of Her Voice .” Using only her voice, Wilson delivered one of Trek ’s most-memorable guest-starring “appearances.” Best known for her many years on MADtv , Wilson actually played Uhura in several of the show’s comedy sketches and was a Trek fan. Bringing with her that Trek affection in combination with her comedic timing and voice artistry, Wilson paints a full picture of a character the other characters – and audience – only get to know from Wilson’s off-screen performance. DS9 was not Wilson's first Trek adventure, as she played a role in the "Klingon Encounter" interactive ride/movie program at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas a few months before.

As Miles O’Brien says about Lisa, “I never shook her hand and I never saw her face, but she made me laugh and she made me weep.” And that is the power of the voice.

Nicholas Jose S. Tenuto is a high school student and Star Trek fan. His poetry has been published in the Young American Poetry Digest. He is an award-winning photographer, and his “Tipple Ladders” image was an Illinois Parent-Teachers Association Reflections Art Competition State Qualifier. Tenuto is a recipient of the United States Presidential Award for Academic Excellence and a junior member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He's been attending Trek conventions since he was two weeks old, where he was held and given his bottle by actress BarBara Luna. His favorite character is the Doctor from Voyager . Tenuto is currently writing his first book, Lound, an original work of fiction.

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Recreate Star Trek Computer Voice Via Computer Voice Generator

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Are you still a fan of Majel Barrett or LCARS's voice? Do you want to use this voice for your audiobook, virtual assistant, or presentation? If yes, then you are welcome. This article is all going to be about computer voice generators or computer voice on Star Trek. We will guide you through a step-by-step visual demonstration of how Star Trek computer voice can be generated using a good and simple computer voice generator. So, let's start!

Part 1: Info of The Computer of Star Trek

Part 2: who voices the computer voice on star trek.

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

Star Trek: The Original Series, debuted in the US on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before".

The Computer Operating Systems of Star Trek was voiced by Majel Barrett. She was a well-known American actress as well as a producer. Majel Barrett was Gene Roddenberry's wife, and it is considered one of the main reasons for her appearance in almost every series of Star Trek. She provided voices as well as, also performed many characters from different Star Trek series.

Majel Barrett provided consistent voices for the on-board computing systems of Star Trek; The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and many other Star Trek creations. Other than this, she energetically did different characters in the Star Trek series like the Christine Chapel, Number One, Lwaxana Troi, and many more.

Part 3: How to Use Text-to-Speech Recreate Computer Voice

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The Computer’s Voice

From star trek to siri.

Liz W. Faber

WINNER: Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association

A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk

Considering Star Trek , 2001: A Space Odyssey , Her , and more, Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender.

"In this elegant book, Liz W. Faber plays intellectual alchemist, swirling methodologies to unearth the roots of our sociological interactions with digital technologies via the auditory, and not merely the visual, domain. The Computer’s Voice furthers our belated attention to the soundtrack, both of our media texts but also our lived experience, by deftly deploying feminist theories of (dis)embodiment." —Walter Metz , Southern Illinois University

Film and Media , Cultural Criticism , Literature , Digital Culture , Gender and Sexuality , Literary Criticism , Science and Technology

Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek ’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.

Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association

$27.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0976-5 $108.00 cloth ISBN 978-1-5179-0975-8 226 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 2020

Liz W. Faber is the Chair of Arts & Sciences at Labouré College. Her research focuses on American media, science fiction, gender, and computer history.

In this elegant book, Liz W. Faber plays intellectual alchemist, swirling methodologies to unearth the roots of our sociological interactions with digital technologies via the auditory, and not merely the visual, domain. The Computer’s Voice furthers our belated attention to the soundtrack, both of our media texts but also our lived experience, by deftly deploying feminist theories of (dis)embodiment.

Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University

Liz W. Faber has written a highly accessible and fascinating history of talking computers, from evil sci-fi mainframes to the smartphones we keep in our pockets. This deep dive into computing, vocalization, and gender explains how the digitized voices we often take for granted have a hidden history and politics all their own.

Mar Hicks, author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

The Computer’s Voice is an ambitious theoretical project, but also a well-argued and informative interdisciplinary study of the intersections between popular culture, gender, and computer history.

Ancillary Review

Faber's grasp of computer vocalizing as an instrument not only of humanizing technology but also of ‘genderizing’ discourse allows her to consider myriad aspects of sentient ‘computer life.’

The Computer’s Voice is an exquisite book, informative and inspiring.

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