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The article mentioned a man identified only by his last name, Müller, who had exhibited some kind of talking machine in the 1780s.—
Ron Cowen,
Scientific American,
3 June 2026 We weren’t prepared for the arrival of talking machines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026 While this work on talking machines was proceeding, so were attempts to build a thinking machine.—
Jill Lepore,
The New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2024 There’s something about talking machines that just sets Mama’s nerves on edge.—Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2017