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The voice that was never human: how an engineer built Grant Whitley
The voice that was never human: how an engineer built Grant Whitley
In this episode, we follow the nineteen-month surveillance that preceded the romance, the 400 hours of voice refinement that created "Grant Whitley," and the moment Ronald Harris discovered an Akron, Ohio IP address behind what was supposed to be Singapore banking. We examine the forty-one lesson recordings that revealed system updates in the voice's breath patterns, the relay module that tracked Kathleen's schedule minute by minute, and why a woman who had studied catfishing in college could not have prepared for a machine…
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