Media

Podcast Episodes

• Keyboard and Quill podcast (2024)

• Artificial Intelligence and Disability, TechCrunch Mixtape podcast (Episode 3.5, 19 December 2020)

• The Electronic Ear, Surprisingly Brilliant podcast (Episode 2.2, 26 November 2020)

• Hearing Aids: Rediscovering Sound, Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson podcast (Episode 4.14, 30 June 2020)

• The Universal Page, 99 Percent Invisible podcast (Episode 360, July 2019)

• Test Subjects, Phantom Power Podcast Episode (February 2019)

• Reading by Ear, Adaptive (20 April 2016)

Selected Interviews (Print and Video)

• Cinema Viva Voce: The Stanley Watkins Story (dir. Blair Rinn, in post-production)

• interviewee, “Can We Identify a Person from their Voice?” IEEE Spectrum (April 2023)

• interviewee, “The Sweet Sound of Synthetic Speech,” Wellcome Collection (November 2021)

• interviewee, “Disability Drives Innovation,” The On Tech Newsletter, New York Times (October 2021)

• The Telephone Wars, The Machines that Built America Series, History (August 2021)

• The Listener and the Machine: an interview with Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne, SpokenWeblog (May 2021)

• Interview with Mara Mills, Xiaochang Li, Jessica Feldman, and Michelle Pfeifer, Machine Listening, a curriculum (March 2021)

• interviewed for Video Chat’s Impressive History Makes it Harder to Hate, Gizmodo (July 2020)

• TOUTE TECHNOLOGIE RELÈVE D’UNE MANIÈRE OU D’UNE AUTRE DE L’ASSISTANCE: Interview with Mara Mills, Syntone (January 2019)

• interviewee, Cryptography and Cyborg Speech: The Strange History of the Vocoder, Red Bull Music Academy Daily (November 2017)

• Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear, NYU Stories (29 January 2015)

• Helen Keller and the Glove that Couldn’t Hear, The Atlantic (September 2014)

• People of the Book: Mara Mills, Ploughshares Literary Magazine Blog (February 2014)

• Interview with Mara Mills, Figure/Ground Communication (March 2013)

• Talking it Out: An Interview (Mara Mills Interviewed by Dylan Mulvin), Seachange vol. 3 (2012)