Voice Synthesis Quotes

I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

The wonderful thing about the talking dog collars in 'UP' is that we were able to hear the thoughts of the dogs without moving their mouths or emoting like a human. The dogs could pant, scratch, and move the way dogs truly do. The animators studied the movements of many dogs, and we had a dog specialist come in and talk to us about dog behavior.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

What is auto-tune? I don't even know what auto-tune is.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.