Community | May 15, 2008 | 11 comments

Current.com News loses robot voice!

source: http://current.com

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lwhi
The robot voice has been abandoned and replaced with a real human voice-over. I personally feel this is a damn shame - and the identity of the station will suffer as a result.

If anything .. the robot voice should be upgraded to a newer version, and not downgraded to a human. This is very bad news.

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11 comments // Current.com News loses robot voice!

  • StrangeConversation
  • unadopted
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      unadopted  

    • Don't kill off the Macintalk voice! It has a good neutral tone when reading articles, it's not opinionated about the content that it's reading.

    • 3 years ago
  • jade_azul16
  • lwhi
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      lwhi  

    • I think the robot voice was democratising - it represents no one, therefore everyone. But I can see how people could view it as dehumanising.

      As a concept, maybe it came across as a bit forced or gimmicky - but having a standard voice-over feels like a backward step.

      What's the concept behind this latest change?

    • 3 years ago
  • twodee
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      twodee  

    • I think the robot voice is a bit forced in the same way the term "new age" insulted a lot of musicians back in the 80s....or whenever that was.

      If Current is about viewer participation and interaction it makes little sense to remove the human and have a machine telling you what is happening in the world. Don't ya think?

    • 3 years ago
  • marty058
  • Mr_Costello
  • Tori
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      Tori  
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    • I think Vicky is pretty cool too... But don't fret - she's still doing the US news, so if you miss her and need your fix, head on over to the US current:news page (linked), for all your robo-news-needs!

    • 3 years ago
  • saverio
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      saverio  

    • I liked the robotic voice. It was nice to see how it would fit both tragic and light-hearted news. Plus, it was a distinctive trait of the network.

      Anyway, I don't mind the human voice.

      Seriously, I like humans.

    • 3 years ago
  • lwhi
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      lwhi  

    • + the new voice-over sounds like it could be at home on a commercial radio station. Enough said, I think.

    • 3 years ago
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