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Reminds 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 navig

• detaro 10y ago
  The 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."