Voice to Text

Voice-to-text is the only piece of technology in human history that is designed to translate sound nobody can hear into language anyone can read.
It listens.
It transcribes.
It does not check who is talking.
It does not check whether the speaker is in the room.
It does not check whether the speaker has a body.
Sophia Goldstein is a Manhattan compliance analyst walking home in the rain when she presses a malfunctioning crosswalk button. Sixty thousand volts go through her thumb. Her phone drops into a puddle.
She picks it up. The screen is cracked.
That night, the screen lights up.
A woman is on the other side of it.
A woman who says her name is Hope.
A woman who has been waiting twenty-eight years for someone to answer.
What follows is a descent into a haunting that nobody believes, a connection Sophia did not consent to, and a cosmology older than the technology that opened the door. From the streets of lower Manhattan, across the ferry to Staten Island, to a lake in New Jersey on a road called Shades of Death, Sophia must confront what has been listening — and what is on the other side of every device she has ever touched.
Voice to Text is a contemporary horror novel by Mark Petrozzella, author of DONOR 1405 and VIIEM Volume 1: The Signal.
You will not look at your phone the same way again.