Focus: AI voice systems (like Siri, Alexa, Spotify DJ, TikTok TTS) do not “speak on their own.” They ventriloquize human voices, redistributing power, authorship, and agency while obscuring the human labor and cultural assumptions embedded in algorithms; Quote: “AI speech technologies algorithmically manipulate these voices, thus generating personas that hold an interconnected chain of tensions between the embodied and the virtual, the particular and the general, the human and the non-human.” (p. 1)