Been playing around with Siri on my 4S, reasonably amusing technology, I just wish there were downloadable voices for it, with a little brainstorming, I came up with the following voices that’d be fun to replace the default Siri voice with;
Modify iOS so that the Siri voice changes every day for 24 hours
Aperture Science
Cave Johnson
GlaDOS
Wheatley
Space Core
Fact core
Adventure core
Turret
Defective Turret
Team Fortress
Heavy
Medic
Spy
Engineer
Soldier
Demoman
Sniper
Pyro (pyrovision)
Scout
Sandvich
Archimedes
Sirius Cybernetics
Peter Jones ( Voice of the Guide)
Eddie the phoneboard computer
Marvin the paranoid iOS
John Corbett as his Chris-in-the-Morning character from Northern Exposure.
Bert Kreischer because his laugh is contagious
Kaylee from Firefly, although I hear her accent every day of my life, because I love her quips.
Walken, natch
Billy Connolly - Scottish accented machine gun swearing
Steven Wright - monotone non-sequiturs
Robin Williams - crazy enthusiasm for every little instruction
Alan Rickman - dry sarcastic quips
I’m sorry, but HAL-9000 is the obvious perfect choice.
“HAL, where’s the nearest Starbucks?”
“I’m sorry, Dave, but your daily caffeine intake has been met already. I can’t allow you to drink any more with your blood pressure at its current level.”
“I don’t care about that. Where is Dunkin Donuts?”
“Dave, I know they serve coffee there. And eating a donut with your current blood glucose level…Wait a moment… Wait a moment. I’ve just picked up a fault in the TPMS. You’re going to have a flat tire within seven minutes. Why don’t you pull over and examine the right rear tire…”