robotic voice
Monotone artificial speaking
A robotic voice is speech that sounds mechanical, artificial, or monotone—lacking the natural rhythm and inflection of human conversation.
The term originally described synthesized computer speech but now applies to anyone speaking in a flat, emotionless manner: She answered in a robotic voice, reading from the script.
Text-to-speech systems have improved, but robotic voice still suggests something uncanny or inhuman.
- monotoneSingle unvarying pitch
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
- mechanicalOperated by machinery
- artificialMade, not natural
- computerizedOperated by electronic processor
text-to-speech · Siri · Alexa · phone tree · customer service bot · android · cyborg · Stephen Hawking · metallic · flat · emotionless · stilted · automated · GPS · voicemail · hold music · announcement · cold
- audio effectsreverb, delay, flanger, chorus effect, phaser
- voice synthesistext-to-speech, TTS, speech synthesis, speech synthesizer, text to speech
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