AI Voice Technologies and the Politics of Human-Machine Communication: A Neo-Political Perspective

Sukanta Ghosh^1* & Aitha Shobha Rani²
¹Assistant Professor, 2Associate Professor, Department of English, Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India. *Corresponding author.

^{Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 18, Issue 2, 2026. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v18n2.15
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Abstract

The language of artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of AI systems to generate speech sounding natural due to technologies that partially generate speech, including text-to-speech (TTS) and voice synthesis, has become a revolutionary part of human-computer interaction in the modern, rapidly changing digital environment. In addition to technical possibilities, AI voice recognition is becoming more influential in the development of how people interact with information, power, and the decision-making process. The neo-political approach is an interesting avenue to critically evaluate such developments. Such a view transcends the orthodox ideological demarcations and is rather about the convergences of digital media, globalization, identity politics, and networked power politics. It is more than a neutral interface, and according to a neo-political perspective, AI is engaged in the creation of political and cultural meaning. Voice-enabled AI systems are made with assumptions of gender, class, and authority, which are often based on the interests of the institutions and corporations that create them. In that regard, AI vocalization helps subtly reconfigure a power structure, affecting citizen-citizen and citizen-system interactions, as well as the digital systems mediating the lives of the population. With the growing prevalence of these technologies, human and machine communication is becoming unclear, raising significant ethical and political concerns. The political implications of AI voice technology are not a mere theoretical issue because they serve as the key to the promotion of transparent, inclusive, and democratic governance in the digitally mediated world. One of the ways to unveil these concealed concepts is the application of neo-political analysis, which indicates the immediate necessity of critical participation and control.

Keywords:Artificial Intelligence (AI), Vocalization, Neo-politics, Digital Future, Technology.