Siri’s response was recently altered to a more flattened “I don’t know how to respond to that,” but the report suggests that the technology remains gender biased, arguing that the problem starts with engineering teams that are staffed overwhelmingly by men. When a user tells Alexa, “You’re hot,” her typical response has been a cheery, “That’s nice of you to say!”
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Though Barrett’s voice currently doesn’t live on in contemporary Star Trek series or iPhones around the world, her legacy is kept alive every time fans hear, “Computer.The report borrows its title - “ I’d Blush if I Could” - from a standard response from Siri, the Apple voice assistant, when a user hurled a gendered expletive at it.
However, the task proved too formidable, so they used a different voice actor for Discovery’s computer. They considered using voice tracks from the legacy Star Trek shows and digitally manipulating them. Though her voice has appeared in other Star Trek media since then, the recordings she made for 2009’s Star Trek were the last she made for the Star Trek universe.Īccording to, the producers of Star Trek: Discovery really wanted to use Barrett’s voice for the ship’s computer. Right before she passed away in 2008, Barrett recorded her voice for the J.J. In Star Trek: Enterprise she voiced the computer on the mirror universe ship and the computer on the Enterprise-D, which appeared in the finale. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Barrett voiced the Federation computer system. In Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, Barrett’s voice was the default voice of the ship’s computer. īarrett recorded her voice for every one of the legacy Star Trek shows. If you want more context, I'd recommend watching the series in its entirety. Each clip is cut to focus solely on the conversation. Voice Tech in Star Trek: TNG Supercut | Season 4 This is a supercut of all the voice interactions between characters and a computer that occur in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4. However, Google did not confirm that they’d purchased those rights. The name of the project led some fans to believe that Google was planning to use Barrett’s voice for their virtual assistant, which would mean they’d bought the rights to the phonetic recordings. According to Fast Company, the project was Google’s attempt to create a virtual assistant to rival Siri. In 2011, rumors were flying about Google’s Project Majel. It’s not clear why the recordings haven’t been used yet, though fans have suggested that it might be an issue with who owns the rights to the voice recordings. Though Roddenberry mentioned plans to get Barrett’s voice as a customized option for the iPhone virtual assistant Siri, those plans have not yet come to fruition. Roddenberry’s confirmation that his mother’s voice had been phonetically recorded meant that it would be possible to recreate her voice for future audio. In order to authentically recreate a person’s voice from old recordings, the recordings must include all the necessary phonemes. Those phonemes can then be put back together to make pretty much any word, sentence, or phrase in the language. The sentences are then run through a computer program and broken down to the phonemes. So, using old recordings of Barrett’s voice, companies like Apple could employ a process called phonemes analysis to create new audio files in Barrett’s voice.Īccording to ExtremeTech, when companies want to use a celebrity’s voice for an application but don’t have specific lines for them to say, they have the celebrities say sentences that include all of the phonetic sounds in the language, called phonemes.
RODDENBERRY #thinkTREK🖖 for Gene's Centennial September 4, 2016Īfter Barrett passed in 2008, her son, Rod Roddenberry announced on Twitter that they’d been able to capture every vocal sound necessary to technologically recreate his mother’s voice. Majel's voice is recorded phonetically, &we're working to get her voice for things such as Siri, maybe voice of the computer on #STDiscovery
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