What do you want me to say? #32

In “What do you want me to say?,” Lauren Lee McCarthy reflects on the ways femme-voiced virtual assistants are commanded and controlled by their users and their developers. In her own words: «Exhausted by Zoom calls, I created a digital clone of my voice to replace me. I feel a sense of power owning the data of my own voice. I am taking it back from the tech companies who are constantly collecting my conversations, sampling, analyzing, and archiving my speech for future use yet unknown. Instead, I offer the control of my voice to others. Upon visiting the work, you are asked by my voice, ‘What do you want me to say?’ However you reply, my voice responds by spea...View all