This article even says as much: https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-technology-drive-thrus-2024-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonald

This article even says as much: https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-technology-drive-thrus-2024-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-tec... >Under the partnership, IBM acquired McD Tech Labs, which McDonald's created after taking control of the AI speech company Apprente in 2019. Probably also using the cheapest non-noise-cancelling microphones they could find at the time.