Big Tonsil Voice

This is what the machine sounds like to me

Gum by Andra C Taylor Jr on Unsplash

If you ask a machine how to revise something you wrote and if you follow its advice, then, Tamsin Mackay warned on LinkedIn last week, “you will sound like a tonsil.”

Face by Nina Garman, background by llmicro, both from Pixabay

To the claim “you will sound like a tonsil,” someone responded with a Debate me, bro! provocation, to which someone else calmly re-emphasized that robot voice is indeed “absolutely tonsil energy.”

Big Tonsil Voice is now my go-to descriptor for what I used to privately moniker AI Voice. I don’t pretend to know what app a stranger used to generate, rewrite, or kick the tires on any particular sentence. I’m just observing a sound drowning out the cadence of mind and heart. Might it be an organic sound? OK, be it so, it’s a tonsil sound.