# Who would be the Voice of your Robot House? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409 "2009-12-24T02:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/61 "2010-01-01T03:07:21Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Ok…I might have to add him, too. That would crack me up. > > Edit: You know, he has the voice for it, but…has Buscemi done much voice work? I think he’d be great at it, but I can’t think of anything. I knew he had done at least one voice-only role but couldn’t think of it. So I headed straight for [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/) and apparently he’s done a pretty good chunk of voice work. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/62 "2010-01-01T04:04:41Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > How 'bout Marvin The Martian? [We’ve](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11923607#post11923607) already [covered](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11930167#post11930167) him in [multiple](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11931263#post11931263) posts. Just so ya know… ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/63 "2010-01-01T07:32:02Z")
Call me a nerd, but I’d like Zooey Deschanel. She could sing me goodnight, too. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/64 "2010-01-01T17:04:07Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Stephen Fry, as Jeeves the “gentleman’s gentleman.” I want my house to sound like it’s my butler! Perfect choice! Runner-up: Patrick Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/65 "2010-01-01T18:57:06Z")
Hmm - like others, I’ve put way too much thought into this, and I don’t even have a definitive winner. But a short list I’m considering: From audiobooks: Simon Jones Christina Moore Gerard Doyle Actresses: Shiri Appleby Amy Acker Lexa Doig Jewel Staite Joanna Garcia Allison Mack Kristen Bell Lexa Doig might be the front-runner just for the fun value. I’m a trek fan, but you can keep the voice of the Federation computers. I want my house to have the voice of the Andromeda Ascendant! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/66 "2010-01-01T19:39:50Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > > [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > > > How 'bout Marvin The Martian? > > [We’ve](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11923607#post11923607) already [covered](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11930167#post11930167) him in [multiple](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11931263#post11931263) posts. > > Just so ya know… Perhaps we did, just not in any of the posts you mentioned 😉 [Marvin the Martian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/67 "2010-01-01T21:46:16Z")
Either Sean Connery or James Earl Jones, although I could live with Morgan Freeman’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/68 "2016-08-31T19:19:12Z")
Steven Blum, hands down ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/69 "2016-08-31T19:42:18Z")
Sara Teasdale (as long as we’re allowing zombies…) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/70 "2016-08-31T21:11:45Z")
Hugh Laurie in his House role (no pun intended) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/71 "2016-09-01T00:07:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _The Simpsons_ had an episode where Pierce Brosnan was the voice of an automated house (can’t find it on YouTube, alas). But I’d prefer having an upper-crust, sexy-but-correct Englishwoman’s voice for my house - Elizabeth Hurley, maybe? Or Amanda Donohoe, Helen Mirren, Amanda Pays or Keira Knightley. There are, ahem, several to choose from. > > And for the Stephen Fry/Jeeves fans (and I count myself among them), here’s the next best thing: [http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/aef3/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/aef3/) The first choice for the automated house was Matthew Perry: “Could I _ **BE** _ any more of a house?” My choice? Elizabeth Peña. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/72 "2016-09-01T00:41:30Z")
Marvin, the paranoid android…The guy who did ther voice in the 80’s series, not Alan Rickman. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/73 "2016-09-01T01:10:58Z")
CL4P-TP (aka Claptrap), from _Borderlands_. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/74 "2016-09-01T01:13:49Z")
James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/75 "2016-09-01T01:51:37Z")
Early Judy Garland, in her breathless teenager phase from the Mickey Rooney movies or Wizard of Oz. “Oh! There’s someone at the door! Shall I see who it is?” That sort of thing. Alternate: early Marlon Brando, especially in his character from Streetcar. He would keep trying to tell me that he was the king in this household, and I would cut him off and switch over to Blanche’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/76 "2016-09-01T02:15:59Z")
John Cleese - set on “sarcastic”. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/77 "2016-09-01T02:32:17Z")
Sovereign, from Mass Effect. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/78 "2016-09-01T02:34:52Z")
Kathleen Turner in her Jessica Rabbit voice. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/79 "2016-09-01T02:36:00Z")
Just noticed that there are 5 different now-banned users. Can i get them to be my robo-house-voices? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-be-the-voice-of-your-robot-house/522409/80 "2016-09-01T06:30:05Z")
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