Twenty Thousand Hertz
Summary: You may not think about the sounds you hear every day… but somebody has. The voice in your phone… the effects in your video games… that drum machine in your favorite song. There are people – and stories – behind every one of them. Join your host, Dallas Taylor, on an exploration of the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
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Who is the person behind the voice of Siri? ...and how was the world's first virtual personal assistant developed?
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