mechanical voice
Automated spoken output
A mechanical voice is speech that sounds artificial, robotic, or devoid of natural human inflection.
The term describes both literal machine-generated speech—text-to-speech systems, automated phone menus, voice assistants—and human speech that lacks warmth or emotional variation: He read the apology in a mechanical voice, clearly not meaning it.
The quality suggests something produced by rote or algorithm rather than genuine feeling.
- roboticStiff and unemotional
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
- monotoneSingle unvarying pitch
- artificialMade, not natural
- computerizedOperated by electronic processor
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