Let’s say we’re at a place where personal AI is a thing. You can have it speak with any voice from any person in history or any media without any copyright issues or the like. Who would you want to voice yours?

I’m going to go with a classic, Majel Barratt. When I think of AI, how we use it now and how we could use it in the future, the Computer voice in Star Trek TNG - Voyager seems like a perfect fit.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    majel for me.

    i once setup a lab of machines (were talkin win98) , and set all of the windows functions to audibly play snips from TNG… all majel. “booting”, “starting program”, “shutting down”… it was pretty great… until you get 30 kids doin stuff at the same time sans headphones.

  • Enfield [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Pretty tough for me to pick a specific voice. The one non-negotiable for me is that it’s gotta have a hint of that digital and computer feel like Iron Man’s Jarvis, Interstellar’s TARS, or Portal’s GLaDOS.

    It’s cool to hear digital voices getting clearer as time goes by, but there’s something to the slight digital artifact that delights me. It appeals to my sci-fi interests, I suppose—makes me feel more like a spaceship captain or something. I already purposely try to pick some of the older sounding voices for stuff like Siri or VoiceOver to get some of that bitcrunch or whatever those qualities sum up to. If I can get that robotic grit while still having an up-to-date voice that can pronounce and annunciate well, that’ll be Perfect 🤖👌.

    • Mummelpuffin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same. I feel like it’s a reminder that it’s a tool, not a person, and not something to be relied on too readily.

  • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. Christopher Walken
    2. Morgan Freeman
    3. Denzel Washington
    4. Bruce Willis
    5. Bobcat Goldthwait (he’s gotta do the voice tho)

    Edit: bonus points if the AI is a little sassy.

    • zombiepiratefromspace@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s likely that most people think of themselves as a should-use-Morgan-Freeman-voice kind of person, when in reality they are a deserves-only-Bobcat-Goldthwait-voice kind of person.