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If we really want a genderless assistant voice bring back the novelty voices from Mac OS X like Zarvox, Pipe Organ, and Cellos. https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=

If we really want a genderless assistant voice bring back the novelty voices from Mac OS X like Zarvox, Pipe Organ, and Cellos. https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=186 https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=186

carimura 8y ago
+1 for whisper.
- jolmg 8y ago
  Yeah. For some reason it reminds me of S.E. Lain.
  - hex12648430 8y ago
    >For some reason That's because it's the voice used to announce the titles of the episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV84lt9Kho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV84lt9Kho
dbg31415 8y ago
Decepticons, attack! * Soundwave G1 voice compilation part I - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu3hYXE_tM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu3hYXE_tM
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PaulHoule 8y ago
I like the voice "Ivy" from Amazon's Polly. It sounds a little bit like the voice of a moppet-type character from League of Legends that just huffed helium. Because it is so stylized you don't have the problem of a "perfect english gentleman" who pauses unnaturally, sometimes makes vowels like T-Pain, etc. that you have with more realistic voices. It definitely comes across as female to me, but it is cartoony enough that it not so culturally coded as female -- so there is less of a sense of "female servicing" as there is with most voice assistants.
whywhywhywhy 8y ago
Although these are gimmicky the sort of route of approaching the problem from what would a machine or non-human AI voice sound like would actually get you the goal of a Genderless Voice. As it stands Q isn't genderless it's just gender non-conforming, which is a great alternative but I'd like to see some work into an actual "AI" voice rather than these voice assistants that try to imitate a human on the gender spectrum.
fsagx 8y ago
My brain has no trouble wrapping around the genderlessness of the voice Colossus from The Forbin Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg
gregknicholson 8y ago
A non-human voice is a valid goal, but a human non-gendered voice is a different thing. Please recognise that agender people are both human and genderless.
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- macinjosh 8y ago
  I never said they aren't. Nice virtue signaling though!

If we really want a genderless assistant voice bring back the novelty voices from Mac OS X like Zarvox, Pipe Organ, and Cellos. https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=186 https://youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=186

carimura 8y ago

+1 for whisper.

jolmg 8y ago
Yeah. For some reason it reminds me of S.E. Lain.
- hex12648430 8y ago
  >For some reason That's because it's the voice used to announce the titles of the episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV84lt9Kho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KV84lt9Kho

dbg31415 8y ago

Decepticons, attack! * Soundwave G1 voice compilation part I - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu3hYXE_tM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu3hYXE_tM

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PaulHoule 8y ago

I like the voice "Ivy" from Amazon's Polly. It sounds a little bit like the voice of a moppet-type character from League of Legends that just huffed helium. Because it is so stylized you don't have the problem of a "perfect english gentleman" who pauses unnaturally, sometimes makes vowels like T-Pain, etc. that you have with more realistic voices. It definitely comes across as female to me, but it is cartoony enough that it not so culturally coded as female -- so there is less of a sense of "female servicing" as there is with most voice assistants.

whywhywhywhy 8y ago

Although these are gimmicky the sort of route of approaching the problem from what would a machine or non-human AI voice sound like would actually get you the goal of a Genderless Voice. As it stands Q isn't genderless it's just gender non-conforming, which is a great alternative but I'd like to see some work into an actual "AI" voice rather than these voice assistants that try to imitate a human on the gender spectrum.

fsagx 8y ago

My brain has no trouble wrapping around the genderlessness of the voice Colossus from The Forbin Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg

gregknicholson 8y ago

A non-human voice is a valid goal, but a human non-gendered voice is a different thing. Please recognise that agender people are both human and genderless.

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macinjosh 8y ago
I never said they aren't. Nice virtue signaling though!