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.
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) English23•1 year ago
- CaptThax ( @CaptThax@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
I can see the VA for Wheatly as my personal AI.
- stevexley ( @stevexley@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Stephen Merchant
That voice was an inspired choice in Pacific Rim too
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
Mr. T
Classic! Fools will be pitied.
- JohnEdwa ( @JohnEdwa@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Shohreh would be pretty awesome, though I’d prefer to sprinkle some Quarian voice modulation in there as well.
- tanjera ( @tanjera@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Shohreh Aghdashlo is definitely my first pick.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Mine as well, and I thought I was being so original before I started reading the answers!
- GunnarRunnar ( @GunnarRunnar@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
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.
- Otome-chan ( @Otome-chan@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
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.
- james ( @james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk ) English5•1 year ago
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?
- james ( @james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
The rehabilitation nurse from Frasier played Holly too, in the short-lived US adaptation of Red Dwarf. Seemed like a good fit for her.
- plactagonic ( @plactagonic@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Lance Reddick (Daniels in The Wire, Commander Zavala in Destiny).
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
“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?
- n-gons ( @ngons@vlemmy.net ) English5•1 year ago
HAL9000
- flatbield ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Especially, “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
- nachtigall ( @nachtigall@feddit.de ) English4•1 year ago
I want to be commanded by Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (example).
Though for everyday life a smoother voice would be nice, like Janet Varney maybe?
- NeatoBurrito ( @NeatoBurrito@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
I would give anything to have Jonathan Van Ness flamboyantly guide me through the day.
- itsgallus ( @itsgallus@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Stephen Fry speaking into a jug. Wise and collected, with a hint of robot.
- Enfield [he/him] ( @nfld0001@beehaw.org ) English4•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 ( @Mummelpuffin@beehaw.org ) English2•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.
- Connor717 ( @Connor717@vlemmy.net ) English4•1 year ago
It sounds like Sir David Attenborough and it makes a lot of double entendres.
- Ronno ( @Ronno@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
My mom, if it wants me to do things /s
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Gilbert Gottfried