Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

Accents?

It'd be nice if they could try and create a range of accents too. I was going to say accentless, but I'm not sure that's possible?

There's something I find mildly irritating about the Q voice though I'm not sure quite what it is - possibly artefacts of the post processing they've done to push it to 'gender-less' ?

Q

To my ears, the Q voice sounded masculine with deliberate feminine overtones. Not genderless but more gender complete.

I think we should ask Jean-Luc Piccard for his views. He has more experience than most with Q.

Welcome to Hell

Having always wondered what voice announcements in Hell would sound like, I applaud these engineer's for creating something so bland, flat, and devoid of any identifiable characteristics. Bravo. I can easily imagine Q saying helpful things like "It rubs the lotion on it's skin" and "I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't let you do that."

If you create a voice assistant and don't use the voice of HAL then you are doing it wrong.

Indeed, voice cloning technology can be used for scams - when the technology allows access to unverified individual users. On the other hand, it can help content creators from industries like film, game development, and media to scale voices easier, and even empower people with voice problems. This is how this technology amazingly works. But in order to maintain project integrity and ethics, companies must seriously take responsibility for their security.