voices are more insidious and intimate than voices with bodies would be. host: and an interesting headline today on this topic, consumer robots are dead, long live alexa. talking about the prevalence of these devices. we are having a conversation with judith shulevitz, and if you want to join the conversation, if you are in the eastern or central time zone, (202) 748-8000. if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. judith shulevitz, you know that google and amazon are pushing these devices to the point that last holiday season they lost the money on some of the discounts. why are they doing that and where do they see the technology going? guest: industry observers speculate about that, we do not know. i think they see them as loss leaders. they want to hook you to their brand so that as these voices move into the internet of things, your cars, your whatever it is, refrigerators, stoves, personal appliances, they will be hooked into the google's ecosystem or apple ecosystem. whoever wins that market, wins the war because that's where

the writing, the voice talent. animation, boom. ♪ >>> there's something about moving cartoons that really delights us. a cartoon is comedy coming to life. that's kind of interesting and magical. >> that's it. i have had enough of your tomfoolery. >> the wildest thing you can tink of is accomplished just by drawing it. so whether it's "the simpsons," "the family guy," your imagination is unlimited in animation. >> in animation, you can like have people ripping apart each other's guts. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> one thing that i like to say is that live action is just low budget animation. >> that's right, he can be taught. >> visual jokes, the best of them are often in animated cartoons. >> don't be nervous, kid. >> he's the most gentle dentist in the whole wide world. >> it's just the drill that hurts. >> comedy has been to move more and more towards animation. >> cartoons, if they're done right, can convey comedy very precisely. and if you think of it and it's funny, you can make it happen. >> animation and comedy go

when you hear a voice, you attribute to that voice a mind and intelligence beyond what these devices currently have. you cannot help it. you are evolutionarily designed to do that. giving these devices voices gives them an upgrade. it causes us to see them as more than they actually are. one of the theses of my piece is that the robots are here, they do not have bodies, but voices. voices are more insidious and intimate than robots with bodies would be. host: an interesting headline in today's usa today -- consumer robots are dead, long live alexa. talking about the prevalence of these digital devices. we are having a conversation shulevitz this morning, contributor to the atlantic. if you want to join the conversation, easy enough to do. if you are in the eastern or central time zone, (202) 748-8000, mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. judith shulevitz, you know that google and amazon are pushing these devices to the point where last holiday season, they lost money with of the sales with some of the discounts on these. why are they doing that and where do they see this t

[speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: she said the tenants are pretty wealthy. >> voice of translator: -- [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: she said she can link you to people who abuse the system because they are so wealthy. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: they say -- they stay in my house but they don't pay the rent yet they also claim to be single. they have children and the husbands keep coming to the place where they potentially be single and they get a lot of support from the system. what she got is nothing except that she has to give up her properties because of the abusive system by the abusive tenants. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: be fair to all of us, but not just one side to the tenants. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. any other public comments at this point? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor? >> thank you for this legislation. i think that the stories we have heard in the beginning clearly indicate a reason that it is necessary. i also want to acknowledge other people who ha

also, we have no voice in this school. we have no voice. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i am the only member of the school council. the problem that we have is i go to the once a month meeting that the principal has, and i think the problem that we have is we have no communication with the principal. there is no communication between the school and the parents. we don't know what's going on, and when we go, when i go to these meetings, she says to the people who are present, you will do this, you will do that, she tells everybody what to do, but we don't know what is going on. thank you. [applause] >> so i do have a lot of cards. if i called your name and i don't see you come up, i will assume you are not here. i will move onto the next card. [calling names] >> okay. i'm moving on. [calling names] >> please state your name. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: good evening. i am a parent because we don't have sufficient teachers in our school. when we don't have teachers and our kids are split into different class

[speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i am disabled. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: my income has been very limited. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i have a son and grandchildren. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: if i have to rely on my retirement funds, i can't even survive. i can't even pay my property tax [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i understand children have tenants as well and they will get old like everybody else. >> voice of translator: we have our own hardship, not only tenants. >> voice of translator: when you put regulation -- recollections, you should look over all the situations on both sides. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: we want to rent our units out because we want to make a living , as well as to provide housing to tenants. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: we have contracts and leases. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: in black and white, we will say when is the lease commenced a

and now repeat after me, this is my voice. all: this is my voice.before the suffragettes, a woman had to know her place. make noise is an eight minute interactive animated documentary story which you use your voice to interact with and it's about the story of the suffragettes. i walked down the strand and the first shop i came to, which was a jeweller's, bang went my hammer through the window. in the early 20th century the british suffragette movement fought for the right of women to vote by protesting and damaging buildings, all the while facing ridicule and anger in the media. sing a note and make a monument with your voice. holding for as long as you can. and that's something that seemed to resonate with everyone in the room. yes, it did make me feel quite self—conscious to simply make noise, but that was the whole point — for both the female, and maybe more importantly, male participants. reminding everyone of the importance of their voice being heard and valued. what did you think of the experience today? really good and epic. how much of a dif

your vote is your voice. as the daughter of selma, alabama, i look forward to welcoming congressman john lewis, a delegation of -- a bipartisan delegation to the pilgrimage this year to selma, alabama to walk across that bridge one more time. this time, we hope and march when we go that we will have delivered a democratic reform package that will do just that, deliver the voice of the people back to the people. before we head to selma to march across that bridge on another anniversary, the 54th anniversary, we are promising action on democracy reform. i thank again my colleague john sarbanes and my democratic leader, nancy pelosi, and i want to welcome the class of 2018, the majority makers to congress. thank you very much. mr. sarbanes: we have dean phillips who is speaking next. i had the chance to be with dean in minnesota. we did a powerful town hall. he understands what we are talking about here. mr. phillips: i took congressman sarbanes to the minnesota state fair. [laughter] that makes three of us. eve

you're giving them a voice well i should. well i feel like a voice exists and actually what we're doing is we're listening so we've also created an amazing community of composers and artists musicians who are asking what is the role of music in a world where we experience so much pain and that music gives us a place to belong and to feel and to remember a common humanity i'm honored to be part of it today and i heard there ever been horns down here sort of africa and the way the l.a. philharmonic corn section of town here in this special place that's going to see what's going to happen is very very special. i was so happy that my dear friends from the l.a. philharmonic one section could join me at the skid row museum we spent the afternoon exchanging music with our new friends from the streets in philly and the urban voices. of my. face. that was a mag ok. my god was that we have a cast. access right. to see to believe what i am told by. yeah you just said it you just. told me. i know good night. coming up a bit oh i was. eig

he says i love so black man is a critical voice of a cast of young voices who now traditional clips of expressions and current global music trends with a global caribbean acetic further as a female she's in a lane of her own. so it's a weighty thing do you see yourself as that young boys who is mixing those two things where no one else's i definitely think so because i think the problem with the use it's a problem but it's actually not a problem at the same time is that we are looking for examples and the examples that we have. it's not necessarily we don't know how to recreate it we don't know how to make a brand new again we don't want to make it trendy like what is happening now and it's like we share the same thing over and over i was just tired of that i love so community and i'm just like why can't i hear something different why why does it sound like the same all song again you know so i felt the need to do that and i think that now that's inspiring more young people to have their voice and understand that my voice doesn't need to be just like the voices before it can be comp

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if you watched the show last week, you saw i lost my voice and had to use a robot voice to communicateluckily, this weekend the prince kissed me so i could speak again. but he didn't ask first, to i reported him to h.r. ( laughter ) i want to thank everybody who supported me and the correspondents who helped me host the show last week. they were amazing. thank you very much! ( cheers and applause ) and i wanted to thank this robot speaker on my phone for being my voice for so long. now the doctors have cleared me so i don't need anymore so i'm back. >> robot voice: really, trevor? is that all our relationship meant to you? >> trevor: actually, yes. i'm done with you, sorry. >> robot voice: i thought we had something special. i told my parents about you. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i'm sorry. that's just the way it is. >> robot voice: in the robot revolution, you will not be spared. >> trevor: well screw you! >> robot voice: book luck with your bitch-ass voice. >> trevor: i'll miss you, too. ( laughter ) >> trevor: let's move on and catch up on today's headlines. lyle and erik menendez, two

the voices, the terror. the nightmare beginning. >> i immediately ducked down in my car after first shot was fired. i laid there thinking, okay, this is how it's going to end for me. >> 911. what is your emergency? >> somebody just shot a man lying dead in front of the village inn. >> reporter: it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of salt lake city, this old chocolate factory, this grand stage for our story. it was converted to loft apartments in those boom years before the bust. and the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd. outliers of a sort, iconoclasts to the mormon city. >> i loved this building. >> reporter: bianca pearman-brooks, born into privilege, raised in africa. she came here in 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i miss christopher and we hit it off. >> reporter: christopher wright, a real estate developer lived in the same loft building as bianca's friend. there was a party in the building, bianca was invited. in one night you knew? >> yeah. yeah. >> repor

and now repeat after me, this is my voice. all: this is my voice.tive animated documentary story which you use your voice to interact with and it's about the story of the suffragettes. i walked down the strand and the first shop i came to, which was a jeweller's, bang went my hammer through the window. in the early 20th century the british suffragette movement fought for the right of women to vote by protesting and damaging buildings, all the while facing ridicule and anger in the media. sing a note and make a monument with your voice. holding for as long as you can. and that's something that seemed to resonate with everyone in the room. yes, it did make me feel quite self—conscious to simply make noise, but that was the whole point — for both the female, and maybe more importantly, male participants. reminding everyone of the importance of their voice being heard and valued. what did you think of the experience today? really good and epic. how much of a difference do you think it made learning about a subject like this in vr? i know more about hist

often growing up i heard you had make sure your voices heard. you're not being a feminist, and advocate, a strong woman if you are not speaking up and being heard loudly. i learned that the not necessarily work so well. out the environment, let's see what is happening, let's be quiet. of the best pieces of advice i received from a mentor was stop scaring them. stop scaring them. [laughter] , was raised to have a voice say what i believe, say what i think, do not hold back, be authentic. understanding what you are delivering them to, i realize more often than i would like, i found my voice was so loud that i would scare folks and it was too much. and thought let me moderated in this way or modulated in that way. over time, i was more effective. having the same tone and the same forcefulness and the same enthusiasm when i was delivering things every time. --works better by being able >> i think women are better at being keen observers. i will carry on a conversation and no what the three tables around me are also saying. my husband is like, how di

i think that everyone -- for many people, i certainly do have a strong voice of doubt, a little voice inside my head that i tried to push aside, that voice, regardless of the steps i've taken is always there one of the things, i took on a new role about four months ago, running everything we do not live globally. for me, a lot of people who've had a lot more experience, but the ceo asked me to run it., there was a realization moment it came six weeks into the role that try to silence the voices and look around objectively and say this is a big rule. i might not be qualified but if i look around i'm the most qualified person in the room and the more you get comfortable and confident, you start feeling more comfortable delegating and pushing things to other people on your team if you stop trying to prove your own worth . >> you are obviously looking at the whole world with policies happening across the globe that are different from what's happening here in the united states. can you give examples from the government of things that are working to empower women to make sure women are in a

as well as contributions from other voices, including other political parties. reflecting the wide range of views on brexit. neither that nor any other format proposed by broadcasters met with the agreement of both theresa may and jeremy corbyn. if that's a shame for some, it's not a surprise. after all, the history of tv debates between political leaders in the uk is a rather tortured one. after many failed attempts to get off the ground, the 2010 general election finally saw the party leaders debate together for the first time. david cameron and gordon brown famously spent a lot of time agreeing with nick clegg — but not with each other. sorry, can ijust try and move beyond the political point scoring? competition between broadcasters and calls for other parties to be represented meant the format had become far more complex by 2015. the bbc hosted this debate between the five opposition parties, while the prime minister took part in a seven—way debate on itv. the eu referendum campaign saw the great debate, organised by the bbc at wembley arena. this thursday

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there would be a head—to—head section and then a other voices section.s was good to beat one programme. 0n itv, there was good to be a debate before and after i misled to get the others you. are you surprised that they've fallen through? we knew to reason they didn't want to do a debate during the last election. we knew that is not the best way of doing things. many more one—to—one is with people around the country, but appears to be her strength i was a bit surprised it came forward. i'm a bit surprised it came forward. i'm a bit surprised that the itv four, which was still on the table until late in the day, did not meet most of what she wanted. that's the point of what she wanted. that's the point of view of what the leaders might have wanted. given that the public would not have any views on this, it was all about mps voting in parliament. what was even the point? from the broadcaster ‘s point of view, this would be a goofy. in the national occasion. not a many people would have watched it, compared to regular sunday programming. i don't know if many

>> use your voices. you all have stories to tell and don't let anyone tell you you can't tell your story and that they have to tell it instead of you. you have the power and i think everybody has to reach deep inside. >> we are out of time. [applause] on the basis comes out christmas day. thank you. [applause] the head of u.s. customs and border protection kevin mcaleenan testified at a hearing about border security and immigration enforcement at the us-mexico border. he fielded questions about the border wall construction and his agency's use of pepper spray and tear gas at the border. senator grassley chairs the judiciary committee. this is two hours and 15 minutes. >> we welcome everybody that's in the room and people that will be coming in and out as well as our witness, the commissioner. a very important subject that we are going to talk with the commissioner mcaleenan about. we thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to be with us.

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these are the same voices pressuring the house leadership to put the cr -- to refuse to put the cr on the floor. the voices of the hard right, both in the house and in the media, give no strategy at all, simply shut the government down. but none of them have detailed in path to get their wall. let me just walk my friends in the house through it. democrats are not budging on the wall. we favor small, effective border security, not a medieval wall. a shut one will not get any democrat to -- for an ineffective, unnecessary, and exorbitantly expensive wall that president trump promised mexico would pay for. i hear them say, mr. jordan, mr. meadows, this was a campaign promise. they're only mentioning half of the campaign promise. the promise throughout the campaign was we'll build the wall and mexico will pay for it. furthermore, there are not the votes in the republican house for a wall. there are not she votes in the senate for a wall. not now, not next week, not next month, or beyond. if speaker ryan refuses to put the cr on the floor, or president trump vetoes it, there will be a trum

>> use your voices. you all have stories to tell and don't let anyone tell you you can't tell your story and that they have to tell it instead of you. you have the power and i think everybody has to reach deep inside. >> we are out of time. [applause] on the basis comes out christmas day. thank you.

voice.should be able to recognize an african-american voice. it should be able to recognize a hispanic voice, an asian voice. they see society differently, because of where they grew up, and the experiences they have of people in their own networks. so, they will help us design those products to make sure they are ones that represent all of us and that are not biased. that work for everybody, not just a segment of the population. ♪ melinda: what i am seeing with the #metoo movement is we are still at the point of reckoning. there is still more to come out. ♪ emily: you founded pivotal ventures in 2015. when you started pivotal ventures, what is the mission that you set out to achieve? melinda: it was really to figure out what are the issues that american women face where there are still barriers, and how could we go about knocking some of those down? so i am not finished saying yet the places that we are going to make investments. there are places where i feel there are some societal needs,

don't always have to be the loudest voice in the room. saying no sometimes. i think that is actually really huge. and having your own board of directors. that's definitely a take-away for me today. thank you all so much. please keep the conversation going with our hashts on twitter. we have run out of time but i appreciate you all being here and sharing your thoughts with us today. thank you so much. . >> welcome to the stage. curator of studies at the national museum of african-american history and culture, ariana curtis. >> hello. let's see if i can get to that first slide. did it click? all right. let's stay here and hope that it moves with me. so long before i dared dream of becoming a smithsonian curator, and before i even knew what the heck a curator did, i loved going to museums and to be honest i didn't go there to feel affirmed in any way, as an afro-lat that, i didn't expect to see myself in those stories and i usually didn't. i liked going because i was a little awkward and a little nerdy and loving to see the culture and important tangible thing f

that's a deep voice. his voice has changed already. >> it's a good point. it change with puberty? >> i'm feeling he will hold on to his talent. he's trying to beat box. it's just incredible. >> here's the instructions on how to do it. nailed it. >> dropping a beat. you need to practice just a little bit more. take it away. >> why sometimes the truth hurts for the fellows. >> i mean, office. >> you are the sole male representative at this table at the moment. so the pressure is all on you. they put visit yeses out on youtube. we delve into how women make men better. >> that's harsh. for what it's worth, you're a pretty good looking dude. >> these ladies are having a conversation but their boyfriends are eavesdropping on the other side. >> take them down a few notches. i love you guys but they got to go. that's why we keep it real. >> you're saying i'm attractive. >> are they colt calling you ugly or entitled? >> i'm not sure. i stopped paying attention. maybe i know the conversations will end up with her complaining about some issue in our relationship. >> l

>> use your voices. you all have stories to tell and don't let anyone tell you you can't tell your story and that they have to tell it instead of you. you have the power and i think everybody has to reach deep inside. >> we are out of time. [applause] on the basis comes out christmas day. thank you. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created at the public service by america's cable television companies. today, we continue to bring unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington dc and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> you're watching american history tv. every weekend beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern, 40 hours of programming exploring our nation's past. the united nations designated 1975 as international women's year. since then, international women's day is celebrated march 8. next, on "reel america," a conversation on women's rights with representatives martha griffiths

we were extending the table of democracy, not engaging new voters that new voices. but new voices. usher in ato politics and governance that is cooperative and more transformational. the polls were not in our favor, i knew they were in contradiction to what we were seeing and feeling out there. i knew when i embarked on the journey would be lonely and uphill and bruising. we live in a dark blue commonwealth, the massachusetts seven, certainly a dark blue district, and we don't primary democrats. not having the support of the establishment nationally or locally -- i did not take offense at this. i am not a neophyte. none of this was surprising. are of what wew were up against. i knew we had a path to victory but i was not sure. five minutes or so before that video, i was sure we had lost. i was working on my speech. there is only one other person in my life the last decade who has really ever been part of that process, his name is jamie chisholm, my former campaign manager. we had agreed i was only going to write one speech, and i was going to make it work either way. quiet team was