Do you think it’s possible to make one of those virtual personal assistants (Alexa for example) speak like Orac from Blake’s 7?

I will only ever use one if I can get it to sound like Orac.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You can train text to speech but it is a bit of work. Prepackaged? Nope.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      I was always disappointed that celebrity and character voice packs weren’t a thing for the voice-assistant platforms. I’d pay literal ones of dollars for a voice assistant with a Sebastian Michaelis intonation and theming.

      Cortana for Windows Phone came closest, I think they did use the same voice actress as the game character.

      • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        They did use the same voice actress as the video game on the Windows version, I can confirm. Or at least it was a very good imitation.

        I was really hyped for Cortana on Windows and then that faded pretty quick. But I remember hearing her voice and thinking how cool that was.