Not exact matches
He has programmed them to blurt out sequences of random notes, and two weeks later, he returns to find that the
robots are still cooing in their eerily human
voices, but they have now «evolved» to sing a repertoire of 20
sounds together.
«Give Life Back To Music» with its
robot voice and disco beat, «Giorgio by Moroder» with its spoken word story before kicking in with its ferocious live drumming and strange
sounds, the eighties feel of «Instant Crush» with the Strokes Julian Casablancas on vocals, the Television sitcom theme style of «Fragments of Time», the closer «Contact» which builds to a glorious crescendo there is so much here to love.
This is just me making up connections where none exist, of course, but I still like to think that if there were some crazy intertextuality going on, the sinister -
sounding voice that intones here about totally - not - at - all - evil reasons for testing dangerous rollercoasters on live human subjects will one day, after the
robot apocalypse, be putting people through much more rigourous testing, perhaps while wearing orange jumpsuits.
The film was also awarded with a Special Achievement Award for
Sound Effects for the creation of the alien, creature, and
robot voices (Benjamin Burtt, Jr.).
Saying, «Call Mom Home» resulted in an innocent
sounding, «I don't recognize that command,» but the subtext, if a
robot voice can have a subtext, was a very Kubrick-esque, «I'm sorry Emme.
You can hit the audio button and have a
robot sounding voice translate a specific word or entire body of text that you have highlighted.
Sounds like
robot voice, men.
The
voice masking feature, which could hide your real
voice so you
sounded like a
robot, a small child or other characters, quickly became one of the most hated features of the service.
Artist Rafael Lozano - Hemmer works with
robot - controlled light and
sound, radio waves, motion sensors, film projections, animations in real time and location - specific
sounds and
voices.
Scientists at the North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can help exploit the resilient nature of cockroaches by turning them into Cyborgs that will assist humans with rescue and relief efforts by fitting in tiny spaces at disaster hit zones where
robots can't reach and pick up
sound (including human
voices) using tiny microphones.
Word from Apple, ahead of the big rollout of iPhone 8 and iOS11 on September 12, is that its
voice assistant Siri is going to
sound more like a person and less like a
robot.
It should have a human
voice too, and not
sound like a
robot wrote it.