Sentence examples for machine voice from inspiring English sources

"Let me see," said Simon, in a childlike machine voice, reaching to pick up the sprinkler.

She's worked four times with the Coen brothers: in Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, an answer machine voice in Blood Simple, a cameo role cut out of Miller's Crossing.

The auditory stimuli (1 or 2) were presented using an external speaker with a machine voice, the volume was maintained constant during all experiments at a sound level of approximately 50 dB measured at 1 m from the speakers.

Left to the enemy would be a Nazi-like capacity for destroying life, a desire to perform search-and-destroy missions on the universe, and the breathy machine voice of Darth Vader (as if evil were a dirty phone call from the Darkside).

Site-Seeing: Machine Voices How close are machines to the days when they truly sound like human beings?

Studies of machine voices - synthetic or machine-generated voices - show that human listeners assign gender to machine voices; that is to say, we interpret these machine-generated voices as the voice of a woman or a man, even when designers have tried to create a gender-neutral voice (Nass and Brave 2005; Lee et al. 2007).

Its machine voices can then be used anywhere a synthesized voice is needed — including in new applications, like automatically generated audiobooks or podcasts, voice-overs, TV dubs and elsewhere.

With the advent of fax machines and answering machines, voice mail and screening and the strong aversion people have to being called by strangers, he says, "Vote polling is in trouble".

Distant speech recognition is essential for natural and comfortable human-machine voice interfaces such as used in, for example, the automotive sector and smartphone mobile applications.

After learning that tape recorders could replace the vinyl records they used to play in live sound effect, BBC drama producers found that if you 'mistreated' the machines, voice effects and nightmarish sounds would result.

When it comes to how humans communicate with each other or with machines, voice is a major interface, with growth in the latter fuelled by the rise of artificial intelligence, faster computing technology and an explosion of new devices — some of which only, or primarily, work with voice commands.