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Writing a movie? Need a mechanical-sounding voice for your robot? Voice actors are so ''difficult''. What if there was something easier?
A '''Synthetic Voice Actor''' is a synthetic voice program that voices a character. It's not used a lot, especially when union rules would make that difficult. It's usually used for extremely robotic voices, or a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Stephen Hawking]]. It more commonly springs up in [[Abridged Series]] and [[Machinima]], partly to get extra voices, and partly because of [[Rule of Funny]]. When used against human actors, it tends to make the speaker seem inhuman — in more serious works, it's used for threatening robotic characters, usually. Compare the computer voice on the [[Star Trek|''Enterprise'']] (real person) to [[WALL-E|AUTO]] (not a real person).
This trope may not apply to [http://www.cepstral.com/ Cepstral voices], or to programs like Voicestitcher (thevoiceplanet.com is down indefinitely).
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== [[Anime]] ==
* The episode title announcer in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' was a [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] program named PlainTalk (often falsely called "Whisperer" because of its "Whisper" voice mode).
== [[Film]] ==
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* The titular robot in ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]'' originally used MacinTalk Junior, credited as "Himself", but later switched to a synthesized human voice, and they even redubbed the earlier episodes with the real actor.
* Compuhorse from ''[[Spliced]]''
* Post-''[[
* [[Frank Welker]] used one to voice Soundwave from ''[[Transformers]]'', which is basically his [[Inspector Gadget|Dr. Claw]] voice as heard in one episode where they forgot to use it.
** On the other hand, ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'' Perceptor's voice is completely synthetic, and probably so to bring to mind Professor Stephen Hawking. One of the writers has suggested that he "deleted his emotions and personality" to make room for more data, though (like many an "emotionless" character), [[Tin Man|he certainly seems to have both]], if understated.
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