Jacqueline Duan

This project aims to explore the influence and impact of voice in our technologies through series of fictionalised and part-fictionalised dialogues, ‘discovered’ as archival material in a speculative future where the individual self has disappeared, succeed by a collective society. These documents include: an interview with the first male voice of UK Siri (Jon Briggs), an email exchange with a speech-language pathologist and an online forum mimicking the discussion threads of Reddit about the software VocaliD. Various locations of the voice are explored in each section; in the body, on our devices, and online as the voice is objectified, co-opted and commodified through means of technology. Ultimately, through the dialogic format of these texts, this project aims to consider what implications exist when we begin to merge something that is as natural and considered intrinsically human as the voice with our artificial technologies.