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I can see the VA for Wheatly as my personal AI.
Stephen Merchant
That voice was an inspired choice in Pacific Rim too
Mr. T
Shohreh would be pretty awesome, though I'd prefer to sprinkle some Quarian voice modulation in there as well.
Classic! Fools will be pitied.
- 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😋
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.
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.
The rehabilitation nurse from Frasier played Holly too, in the short-lived US adaptation of Red Dwarf. Seemed like a good fit for her.
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.
"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?
Lance Reddick (Daniels in The Wire, Commander Zavala in Destiny).
It sounds like Sir David Attenborough and it makes a lot of double entendres.
I would give anything to have Jonathan Van Ness flamboyantly guide me through the day.
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 🤖👌.
I want to be commanded by Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (example).
Though for everyday life a smoother voice would be nice, like Janet Varney maybe?
My mom, if it wants me to do things /s
Gilbert Gottfried
No one has yet mentioned GlaDOS (a robotized Ellen McLain) or Christopher Lee.
Either would be good.
Werner Herzog
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.
At work? Billy Mays. At the bar, Morgan Freeman.
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
Stephen Fry speaking into a jug. Wise and collected, with a hint of robot.
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Alan Watts
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Simon Templeman or Tony Jay (both in the Legacy of Kain series, Kain and Elder God respectively).
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Morgan Freeman
Samuel L. Jackson, but only if he's allowed to say "motherfucker."
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.
Hm.
Famke Janssen, if she's reprising her character from Goldeneye
Kate Beckinsdale, in her role as Selene from Underworld
Kathleen Turner, as Jessica Rabbit.
Yes, I'm a simple Man, with simple tastes =P
The Verity COVAS from Elite Dangerous
Keanu Reeves so it would be like a copy of the Johnny Silverhand engram.
I'm not comfortable with a voiced computer that doesn't have Majel Barrett's voice, frankly. Google Assistant/Siri/Alexa hit my ear wrong as it is.
This is the correct answer
I've always wanted Bill Nighy voicing my daily life so he'd be a strong candidate.
Or Ash Sroka doing Tali from Mass Effect
John DeLancie. That man's voice is honey to my ears.
Alternatively, Kari Wahlgren.
Edit: How the fuck could I forget about Stephen Russell? Give me Garrett or Nick Valentine, either would be fine.
Speaking of Nick Valentine, Humphrey Bogart could also be an interesting voice for personal AI.
And I also forgot the lovely Laura Bailey and Matt Mercer.
I would have a very hard time choosing between Alan Rickman and Hugo Weaving, especially in his role of V from V for Vendetta. A close third would be Pedro Pascal as the Mandalorian. I guess I just have a thing for masked guys, haha.