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Maybe not a digital assistant one could date, but it would be fun if they could have a swappable persona. Similar to what golf games could have back in the 90s
by avryhof 9y ago
Maybe not a digital assistant one could date, but it would be fun if they could have a swappable persona. Similar to what golf games could have back in the 90s for the commentators.
It would be fun to order your favorite fictional character around. Imagine having Riker as your Digital assistant and saying "Make it so, Number One" (or whatever your punny variant of that is) ... or any number of other fun characters to order around.
- ourmandave 9y agoReminds me of my sister's TomTom navigation device. She bought the John Cleese voice for it, which is hilarious. But there's a very limited phrase set for navigation he had to record. How big is the vocabulary for a digital assistant?
- detaro 9y agoThe digital assistants don't have recorded phrases, it's speech synthesis. Someone once speaks a lot of text that contains all the different sounds that make up words, and that's then sliced and the input for the synthesis. A lot more work than just recording a small set of phrases. And of course a persona is more than the pure voice, but also writing and how they use their voice to say things. EDIT: an article about Siri's voice actor: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831131/siri-voiceover-susan-bennett https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831131/siri-voiceover-susan-b... > "I recorded four hours a day, five days a week for the month of July," […] > The goal is to try to include every possible sound (usually drawn from a syllable-long building block) so they can be assembled in every possible combination for every possible word. To record these, voice actors are forced to recite gibberish-like sentences that include all of the English language's different sounds […] including absurd phrases like "oil your mills jewel weed today."