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.
I can see the VA for Wheatly as my personal AI.
Stephen Merchant
That voice was an inspired choice in Pacific Rim too
Mr. T
Shohreh would be pretty awesome, though I’d prefer to sprinkle some Quarian voice modulation in there as well.
Shohreh Aghdashlo is definitely my first pick.
Mine as well, and I thought I was being so original before I started reading the answers!
Classic! Fools will be pitied.
I’d probably have it switch itself daily as well as the personality if possible.
I don’t need to be attached to a computer person, I’m already addicted to social media enough. Besides, it sounds fun to meet a new “person” everyday.
This is literally the project I’m working on. I have mine voiced as my husbando Impey Barbicane from Code Realize. Though I’m thinking of training a tts on some youtuber voices that I like.
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that” - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Who wouldn’t want the first murdering AI as their personal assistant?
Majel Barratt is a great shout - I’d probably go for Data or Picard though :). Or maybe Holly from Red Dwarf?
Oo good choice. Which Holly though, Norman or Hatty?
A great question. Probably Norman just so he can randomly say “What’s happening, dudes?”, but Hattie had some pretty good lines too, she could bang her head on the screen to count things.
Or it will depend on situation - in the morning Queeg wold wake you up, and Holly will read you random facts before going to bed.
The rehabilitation nurse from Frasier played Holly too, in the short-lived US adaptation of Red Dwarf. Seemed like a good fit for her.
HAL9000
Especially, “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
Lance Reddick (Daniels in The Wire, Commander Zavala in Destiny).
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 🤖👌.
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.
No one has yet mentioned GlaDOS (a robotized Ellen McLain) or Christopher Lee.
Either would be good.
Gilbert Gottfried
It sounds like Sir David Attenborough and it makes a lot of double entendres.
Stephen Fry speaking into a jug. Wise and collected, with a hint of robot.
I would give anything to have Jonathan Van Ness flamboyantly guide me through the day.
My mom, if it wants me to do things /s