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"stilted voice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to describe someone's speech as stiff, formal, or unnatural sounding. Example: During the formal business meeting, the CEO spoke in a stilted voice, causing everyone to shift uncomfortably in their seats.
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John gives him a Marlboro (joking about its "microneat finger") and does a commercial, saying in a stilted voice, "It's a big cigarette for a big man," and George joins in on the parody.
These features of the narrator's character are revealed early on, in the somewhat formal, stilted voice with which the entire story is told: "I did not mind my solitariness: I was able to read a lot, and wanted to find out how things worked.
In a disingenuous, stilted voice, RNC Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declares in the 30 second radio ad, that the RNC honors the achievements of "black Republican trailblazers" like Judge Sara Harper, Michigan businessman Bill Brooks, and Dr Louis Sullivan of Georgia.
As in The Reader, the necessity to have all the dialogue in English means that there's something inescapably inauthentic about the film from the start; everyone talks in that careful stilted voice to ram home the fact they are not using a pantomime Chermin ecksent.
The stilted voice and limited interactions aren't exactly anything a power user would be excited by.
What's interesting is that you don't have to learn some stilted voice commands to talk to these apps via Siri.
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The old methods of creating speech from text produced the familiar but stilted voices we're all familiar with from the last decade or two.
He wandered around, talking out loud, in a voice stilted and unpleasant.
After a blackout Stefan Ferry walks onto the stage — an action he repeats later — holding a television monitor that shows his head, while a stilted, bored voice ticks off a few points about the next section: "There are short sections and long sections of four minutes".
Ford told "Reply All" that seeing his anxieties emailed to him in a stilted spambot voice took some of the sting out of them, simply by rendering them a bit ridiculous.
His rapping now seems stilted, and his singing voice often lets him down; he sounds nasal and forced whenever he exceeds his limited range.
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