Okay, I'm not hugely interested in voice interfaces with my smartphone or computer … but still think it is majorly awesome that Google is codenaming their voice system "Majel". #ddtb
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Google’s response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year | Android and Me
I wrote about Google’s response to Apple’s Siri voice assistant several months ago and over the weekend I received further details about the secret project. For starters it is codenamed Majel, which c…
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Any chance they actually recorded her voice? If so, I imagine it’s the TNG version rather than the TOS (although the one you quoted in the title might not be bad).
@Avo – It’s not clear that the service will actually use her voice (in fact, I doubt it), just her inspiration.
It might have been a little difficult to do so, unless the origins of the project pre-date her death in 2008.
Oh, bother. It had slipped my mind that she had passed away. It’s getting so hard to keep track of all my cultural icons that are gone now.
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Voice sampling from all her appearances on both shows? Could probably get enough sounds to allow synthesis of the few you didn’t get . . . .
@Arty – Maybe … though I suspect the estate wouldn’t be interested in recordings of Majel saying all the things that people could then have her say.