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.

  • Dankenstein@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years 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
      4·
      2 years 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.

  • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
    8·
    2 years 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.

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I also would want my own voice. It would have to be how my voice sounds in my own head though, not how it sounds in recordings

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years 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.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years 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?

      • james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.ukEnglish
        3·
        2 years 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.

        • plactagonic@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 years 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.

        • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years 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.

  • Enfield [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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
      2·
      2 years 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.

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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?

  • Uriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    No one has yet mentioned GlaDOS (a robotized Ellen McLain) or Christopher Lee.

    Either would be good.