A company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.

一家公司展示了一种新的语音技术，这种技术能够制造逼真的人声，能够在不被察觉的情况下与接待员通话并预订房间。

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“I had neither connections, nor fortune,” he says in his latest book, not to mention a “foreign-sounding name”.

“我既没有关系，也没有财产”。 他在他上一本书中说道，更不要说还有一个“一听就知道是外国人的名字”。

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Ms von Lange, who has been dubbed literature's answer to the Spice Girls, saves her novel from sounding too condescending and portentous by injecting a heavy element of comedy into a book intended to upset the grown-ups.

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Barash muses, at the end of his book, on the fact that our minds have a stubborn fondness for simple-sounding explanations that may be false.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So