That voice was an inspired choice in Pacific Rim too
- Christopher Walken
- Morgan Freeman
- Denzel Washington
- Bruce Willis
- Bobcat Goldthwait (he's gotta do the voice tho)
Edit: bonus points if the AI is a little sassy.
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.
A sassy Morgan Freeman voice is the perfect option for me as well😋
Mr. T
Classic! Fools will be pitied.
Shohreh would be pretty awesome, though I'd prefer to sprinkle some Quarian voice modulation in there as well.
Shohreh Aghdashlo is definitely my first pick.
Mine as well, and I thought I was being so original before I started reading the answers!
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.
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.
Lance Reddick (Daniels in The Wire, Commander Zavala in Destiny).
Majel Barratt is a great shout - I'd probably go for Data or Picard though :). Or maybe Holly from Red Dwarf?
Oo good choice. Which Holly though, Norman or Hatty?
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.
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.
The rehabilitation nurse from Frasier played Holly too, in the short-lived US adaptation of Red Dwarf. Seemed like a good fit for her.
My mom, if it wants me to do things /s
I want to be commanded by Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (example).
Though for everyday life a smoother voice would be nice, like Janet Varney maybe?
I would give anything to have Jonathan Van Ness flamboyantly guide me through the day.
No one has yet mentioned GlaDOS (a robotized Ellen McLain) or Christopher Lee.
Either would be good.
Gilbert Gottfried
It sounds like Sir David Attenborough and it makes a lot of double entendres.
"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?
HAL9000
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 🤖👌.
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.
Establishing battlefield control - Standby
Pick your poison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqsHRwUDzM
Agent Smith, and he has to be disgusted by everything all the time.
Stephen Fry speaking into a jug. Wise and collected, with a hint of robot.
Charlie Kelly.
AI logic is wildly inconsistent still and I feel like I'd be more understanding of it sounded like Charlie. Plus, I'd be asking it to do a whole lot of work I don't want to do.
Alan Rickman.
I don't think I could handle a sexy lady ai so maybe having my own one based on a billionaire I can bully would be nice
At work? Billy Mays. At the bar, Morgan Freeman.
Tom Servo. I already installed AI in my Tom (automotom) Servo, now I just have to train the voice.
Bernard Hill or Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington
Peter Capaldi, and he needs to swear.
Samuel L. Jackson, but only if he's allowed to say "motherfucker."
Gilbert Gottfried.
majel for me.
i once setup a lab of machines (were talkin win98) , and set all of the windows functions to audibly play snips from TNG.. all majel. "booting", "starting program", "shutting down"... it was pretty great... until you get 30 kids doin stuff at the same time sans headphones.
The Verity COVAS from Elite Dangerous
Werner Herzog
This probably won't speak to many, but I'd choose Roger Carel, a French comedian, and prolific voice actor, who was the voice of my childhood. I'd love to have Jiminy Cricket as my official conscience.
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