VENICE — We met Ilaria D’Uva in Venice, where she has just voiced the audio guide for the city’s Naval Museum. Two million people a year hear her at the Duomo of Milan, the Pantheon, Pompeii and Assisi. She grew up on bread and audio guides, daughter of the man who created Italy’s first audio guide in 1959 and convinced the future Pope Paul VI to install it in Milan Cathedral. Now, with AI circling, she insists her trade survives on the one thing machines cannot fake. Emotion.
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