Why Is It So Hard to Make a Computer Talk Like a Human?

The next generation of computerized voices has to be human enough to connect with but not so human that we feel we’re being lied to. That’s no small feat.

Starre Julia Vartan
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJan 15, 2019

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Illustration: Will Harvey

WWhen our machines first began speaking to us, it was in the simple language of children. Some of those voices…

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Starre Julia Vartan
OneZero
Writer for

AKA The Curious Human. Science journalist & nature nerd w/serious wanderlust. Former geologist. Still picks up rocks. Words in @NatGeo @SciAm @Slate @CNN, here.