Voice recognition was sold to the public as the next step in convenience—our devices could finally “understand” us. But the reality unfolding behind closed servers is far darker: every word spoken to a smart speaker, call center, or in-app voice interface is now part of a sprawling commercial ecosystem designed to profile, predict, and manipulate the human voice.

Behind the benign marketing veneer of “human-centered AI” lies a data-mining racket involving Big Tech, advertisers, insurers, and data brokers, all racing to monetize not just what you say—but how you say it. This investigation follows that trail.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mk3blog/p/the-sound-of-surveillance-how-voice?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web