Thursday, August 20, 2020

Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times:
Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74  —  As a researcher at AT&T, she helped lay the groundwork for modern digital assistants like Siri and Alexa.



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