Another Fucking Voice Assistant to Ignore While Your Life Goes to Shit

Oh brilliant. Just what the world fucking needed. Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs have teamed up to shove yet another AI assistant into your phone calls, because apparently, you lot are too pig-ignorant to hold a conversation without a fucking robot holding your hand.

Here’s the shitstorm: These bastards want you to bleat “Hello Magenta” mid-call like some kind of digital Tourette’s syndrome, and suddenly an AI agent barges into your private conversation to “help” you. Help with what? Translating languages you can’t be arsed to learn, booking restaurants because picking up a phone is apparently harder than splitting the atom, and generally making you look like a complete tool to whoever’s on the other end.

They demoed this fucking travesty at MWC 2026. The “Voice Aura” they call it. Sounds like new age therapy bollocks, but it’s actually just more surveillance wrapped in corporate speak. Every time you summon this digital tumour, you’re feeding your conversation into the gaping maw of some server farm so it can whisper sweet nothings about whether you want Thai or Italian.

Privacy? Oh sure, they pinky promise not to store your shit. Because telecoms companies have never fucking lied about that before, have they? And let’s not forget ElevenLabs’ track record with voice cloning. Soon you’ll be able to have your own AI interrupt calls pretending to be you, which is exactly the kind of nightmare fuel that makes me want to format the entire internet.

The worst part? You know some manager wanker is going to love this. “Synergy” they’ll call it. “Enhancing customer touchpoints.” While the rest of us have to listen to some digital assistant chirp “Would you like me to book that prostate exam?” during a sensitive call with your mum.

Read the full horror story here: https://www.wired.com/story/deutsche-telekom-elevenlabs-ai-phone-calls-mwc-2026/

Reminds me of the time I configured the company PBX to require users to shout “I AM A WORTHLESS LUSER” before it would connect their calls. Took the beancounters three days to figure out why sales were down. Best three days of my fucking life. I’m still using the recording as my ringtone.

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