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On the question of Robots, we already have a robot accent: that digital accent that is familiar from TV and movies, which hilariously mispronounce so many wonde
by telesilla 9y ago
On the question of Robots, we already have a robot accent: that digital accent that is familiar from TV and movies, which hilariously mispronounce so many wonderful words.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/05/446051309/hey-siri-what-did-you-say-why-computers-still-mispronounce-names https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/05/44...
I do expect that one day computerised speech will be far more eloquent and sound more like HAL and less like Paranoid Android.
But what about great robot voices like Alpha 60, Hitchhiker's Marvin and Tron's Master Control Program? I hope we keep our sense of humour in the future.
- Digit-Al 9y agoIf Sat Navs are anything to go by you'll probably be able to get downloadable voice modules to get your robot sounding like Homer Simpson or Bill Cosby (okay, maybe not Bill Cosby... ahem).