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The Voice Catchers

How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet

by Joseph Turow

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A chronicle of the rise of voice as valuable biometric data and how marketers will use it to manipulate us The first in-depth examination of the voice intelligence industry, this timely book exposes how artificial intelligence is enabling personalized marketing and discrimination through voice analysis. Customer service centers are treating you differently from other callers based on what they conclude your voice reveals about your emotions, sentiments, and personality, often in real time. According to scientists, your weight, height, age, race, and illnesses can also be determined from the sound of your voice. Ultimately not only marketers—but also politicians and governments—may use voice profiling to infer characteristics about you to serve their interests, not yours or society’s. Leading communications scholar Joseph Turow places the voice intelligence industry in historical perspective and offers a clarion call for regulating this rising surveillance regime.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Yale University Press publishes serious non-fiction that furthers scholarly investigation, stimulates public debate and enhances cultural life. It is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe.

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  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780300248036
  • Pages288
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • IllustrationNo illustrations

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