[quinndupont]

There’s a long history of attempts at artificial speech that take this approach, recreating mouth parts and vibrating air. They are all pretty silly, like this work, which fails to understand how writing isn’t just a derivative of speech.

[crazygringo]

> They are all pretty silly,

Huh? How?

> like this work which fails to understand how writing isn’t just a derivative of speech.

The whole point of the article is that writing isn't just a derivative of speech. It's in the introduction.