Last year, there was a post on the Roddenberry twitter account that Majel recorded phonemes before she passed, and it was hinted that her voice would be used on Discovery. Anyone hear anything more about this?
Not a sausage! Between this or Marina Sirtis doing the computer voice - It's something she was lobbying for being Majel's "daughter" - I know which I'd prefer.
I definitely heard that there are enough existing samples of Majel's voice that the DSC people will be able to come up with a computerized "virtual Majel" that can say any line. Not just edited from existing lines, but all new ones. Failing that, I'm all for Sirtis doing the voice.
I posted in 2009 specifically how it could be done using Majel's voice and that it would take some time.. on this thread: The computer voice on next Trek TV series - actor The date and source There are a few new software that could be used. Adobe Reveal Project VoCo Speech Synthesis Technology though Innoetics technology could potentially be used to make Bixby’s voice more human http://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-latest-acquisition-could-give-bixby-a-boost San Francisco-based startup BabelOn believes it can bridge that gap with its speech synthesis technology https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/06...te-speech-language-using-voice/#.tnw_VHn1g0PX Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird Google’s DeepMind AI fakes some of the most realistic human voices yet https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12860866/google-deepmind-wavenet-ai-text-to-speech-synthesis https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/[/QUOTE]