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Right... enthusiastic and generally confused. It's uncanny valley level expressions. Still better than drab, monotonous speech though.


So far I prefer the neutral tone of Alexa/Google Assistant. I like computers to feel like computers.

It seems like we're in the skeuomorphism phase of AI where tools try to mimic humans like software tried mimic physical objects in the early 2000's.

I can't wait for us to be passed that phase.


Then you can tell it to do that. It will use whatever intonations you prefer.


I want to get to the part where phone recordings stop having slow, full sentences. The correct paradigm for that interface is bullet list, not proper speech.


I can't be the first person that has heard this type of voice before? On a phone tree with a bank when he enter the wrong code?

"It looks like you entered the wrong number! Did you want to try again? Or did you want to talk to an agent?"

That sort of chirpy, overly enthusiastic voice?




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