# Who is the Voice of Your Robot House? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 10, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558 "2007-05-10T16:01:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/41 "2007-05-11T02:21:23Z")
Paul Frees, or [Kath Soucie.](http://www.geocities.com/kirstz_3020/kathdemo.mp3) (Probably Mr. Frees with the “Colossus” vocoder, for when I’m in a bad mood.) Of course, I can pretty much get [Roger Moore](http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php) (under “Charles”) right off the shelf, if time or price is a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/42 "2007-05-11T04:50:24Z")
Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Kate Beckinsale, or Julie Delphy. ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/43 "2007-05-11T05:15:47Z")
James Gandolfini doing the Tony Soprano NJ-ish vaguely threatening thing for the security system. Motion activated, the kids would definitely stay off the lawn. Inside, John Cleese. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/44 "2007-05-11T05:29:02Z")
Samuel L. Jackson. **"You did NOT just track mud into my just vacuumed carpet!"** **"Wake the fuck up motherfucker, this ain’t no time to be snoozin’!** I think it would scare me into being a better person. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/45 "2007-05-11T05:34:10Z")
Wentworth Miller Kiefer Sutherland Billy West doing various Futurama incarnations ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/46 "2007-05-11T05:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=DeadlyAccurate] Billy West doing various Futurama incarnations [/QUOTE] Billy West as Skeets! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/47 "2007-05-11T05:58:52Z")
Hmm. At first I thought Alan Rickman was a great idea until I realized how this would actually play out: Alan would speak to me, and I’d be overcome by a wave of sexual arousal, unable to conduct a single mundane task around the house. The situation could get desperate pretty quickly. It’s better if I get the Hal9000 voice. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/48 "2007-05-11T06:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Douglas Rain (HAL 9000). I’d even change my name to “Dave” to get the effect right. [/QUOTE] Exactly what I was going to say. Darn you to heck. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/49 "2007-05-11T07:54:39Z")
Norman Lovett - the original _Holly_ from Red Dwarf. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/50 "2007-05-11T08:33:38Z")
Johnny Cash. “I’m sorry. I suppose you didn’t hear me. I said your toast is ready, _SIR_.” ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/51 "2007-05-11T10:01:49Z")
Patrick Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/52 "2007-05-11T12:43:38Z")
[Amy](http://mysite.verizon.net/bzohn/loud_yippee_skippee.wav) already does a great job of telling me when I have email; I might as well just expand her duties rather than get someone else. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/53 "2007-05-11T12:53:33Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] Johnny Cash. [/QUOTE] “I killed a (insert your choice here; door to door salesman, religious proselyte, kid on lawn) in (Sydney, Memphis, Little Rock) just to watch him die.” ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/54 "2007-05-11T13:13:37Z")
Weekend computer voice: **Pauly Shore** All other times: **Generic BBC female reporter or Nigella Lawson** (I just DIG a female British accent, It’s a holdover from an experience in my college days! Mmm…) With \*\*James Earl Jones \*\* as a backup for when the mood is really really serious. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/55 "2007-05-11T13:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly, Kate Beckinsale, or Julie Delphy. [/QUOTE] One of these things Is not like the others ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/56 "2007-05-11T14:21:22Z")
I don’t really care who - just a cultured, hot British guy. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/57 "2007-05-11T14:54:04Z")
It’s a toss-up between Yoko Ono and Gilbert Gottfried. I need to get out of the house more. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/58 "2007-05-11T15:07:28Z")
I think most of you are going about this wrong. **CairoCarol** and **OtakuLoki** have the right idea. See, my initial thought was: Carla Gugino! I’d _love_ having Carla Gugino talk to me all day and all night. But then I realized, hey, I wouldn’t actually get anything done. Not only would I be sorely distracted from important tasks by hearing Carla Gugino’s voice, I would almost certainly _procrastinate_ from those tasks just so I could hear the reminder again. “Come on, Carla. Tell me to change the light bulb in the hallway. Oh yeah. And the wet clothes in the washing machine that need to be moved to the dryer. Give me an order. Tell me what to do. Mmm. Okay, just one more time…” Seems to me that you want a voice that _you want to shut up_ because it would motivate you to take care of things so you _don’t have to fucking hear it again._ So: George Bush. I’d have the cleanest, best-organized house on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/59 "2007-05-11T15:23:28Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Seems to me that you want a voice that _you want to shut up_ because it would motivate you to take care of things so you _don’t have to fucking hear it again._ [/QUOTE] Good point. Then my house would have to use \*\*Mr. Rogers \*\* or \*\*Bob Ross \*\* as the voice. “Can you pick up your dirty socks? Sure you can. Isn’t life better when we pick up after ourselves?” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558/60 "2007-05-11T15:28:06Z")
[QUOTE=DeVena] Good point. Then my house would have to use \*\*Mr. Rogers \*\* or \*\*Bob Ross \*\* as the voice. “Can you pick up your dirty socks? Sure you can. Isn’t life better when we pick up after ourselves?” [/QUOTE] :dubious: Then I’d be reduced to buying a gun and shooting the speakers to get it to stop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/403558.md?page=4)