S3 Ep219: Audio Porn Is My New Bae & The Creepy Uncanny Valley
An Acquired Taste Podcast
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5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Bethany’s Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncanny
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/cats-movie-trailer-unites-the-internet-under-one-shared-message-wtf-did-i-just-watch/
https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm/an-uncanny-valley-of-racist-design
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/why-do-so-many-digital-assistants-have-feminine-names/475884/
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-robot-voices/
https://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/425608745/from-upspeak-to-vocal-fry-are-we-policing-young-womens-voices
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705395100/meet-q-the-gender-neutral-voice-assistant
https://www.genderlessvoice.com
Kathleen’s Sources:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/best-audio-porn-erotica
https://weareferly.com/
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/ (December 2019 issue)
Transcript
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, this isn't acquired taste podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Kathleen, your party throwing Mrs. Masele watching Rain Deer Poop Eating Friend. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Bethany, your Kathleen's party missing, succession watching, ask me about my $4 |
| 1:01.6 | jeans friend. |
| 1:03.0 | And every week Bethany and I get together to discuss our lives, so it's weird in the |
| 1:06.7 | world and we invite you to join us this week. |
| 1:09.2 | We're talking about the Uncanny Valley. |
| 1:12.5 | So last week, Kathleen, you brought up the Cats trailer, which is freaking people out |
| 1:17.1 | across the world. |
| 1:18.9 | And the big reason it's freaking people out is because of the Uncanny Valley, which I think |
| 1:22.1 | is a phrase that most people have heard of at least, but not everyone knows a ton of |
| 1:26.3 | what it is. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | So I thought I would talk about it a little bit. |
| 1:30.6 | And this week I was at a, I didn't know what to talk about. |
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