Funny Face
A personal reflection on voice computing, from Dragon Dictate in the late 1980s to today’s conversational AI voice models, and what changes when a machine can finally talk back.
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Calypso
A reflection on Calypso, Zora, loneliness, memory, self-evolution, and why a machine’s voice can feel like something more.
Zora feels alive not because she explains consciousness, but because the story lets us feel her longing for connection.
Dispatches