Look who's talking - Tech Weekly podcast

Language is what makes us human. So what does it mean when algorithms start to put words in our mouths?

This week on Tech Weekly, we look at how new apps are transforming language. From new start-up Crystal, which promises to make your emails more empathetic, to the global rise of emoji, do these apps short-cut meaningful communication or are they just innocuous tools helping make life quicker?

To help us decide is Evan Selinger, a professor of philosophy who thinks the divide between the human and the algorithm is getting dangerously blurred; and Professor Vyv Evans, a linguist championing the use of emojis to help us express our emotions more clearly.

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