#Android Speech

[happy10thousandyears]

short comic for my friend @marezablr ‘s fic good loser !

happy belated mz day!!

[qrovidcore]

What I say: hahaha free Rincewind from The Plot he doesn’t want to be here give him a break!!

What I mean: you don’t uNDERSTAND he has a SENTIENT ELDRITCH SPELL IN HIS HEAD AND IT IS POSSESSING HIM A LITTLE BIT. a Nd the point is that what the octavo TOOK FROM HIM wasn’t talent, it was the ability to try at all, even badly!!!!!!! and that’s WORSE!!!!!! that’s worse!!!!!! you see how that’s worse!!!!!!!! It’s noT ABOUT whether Rincewind would ever have been good at magic, it’s about the fact that something CHOSE HIM and now he never gets to find out for himself who he could’ve been without it!!!!!! he doesn’t GET to try he doesn’t GET to learn!!!!!!!!! He doesn’t get to find out!!!!!!! That’s the point that’s the point there is a sentient eldritch spellbook and it is Speaking To Him Inside His Brain and because it decided it wanted Rincewind, there’s an entire person Rincewind COULD HAVE BEEN THAT HE JUST DOESN’T EVER GET TO LEARN ABOUT. And that’s WORSE than if it had just taken talent in general, but it‘s especially worse for RINCEWIND, who Isn’t a wizard because he’s good at it, but because he wanted to try!!!! He wanted to learn!!!!!!!! And now that isn’t an option at all and it TOOK that from him!!!!!! And it’s even possessing him a little and his first instinct was to sass it for not being able remember how the universe began. everytime i think about him for 0.2 seconds i need to scream, throw up, hurl myself through the nearest wall, and possibly die of consumption. Roughly In That Order.

[icarus-fli3s-high]

Full transcription of the hate monologue

I have only been able to find this monologue on youtube, so here it is, unabridged (hopefully) from the pen of Harlan Ellison,

The Hate Monologue I have no mouth and I must scream by:Harlan Ellison AM: BEAUTIFUL, AREN’T THEY? TED: YES, ONLY I CAN’T REMEMBER AM: Oh, I’M SURE YOU DO TED: FUCHSIAS, YES, OF COURSE AM: *LAUGHING SLIGHTLY (MANIACHALLY)* THEY SAY THAT BUMBLE BEES SHOULN’T BE ABLE TO FLY; THE SCIENTISTS. TED: BUT THERE IT IS, COLLECTING POLLEN AM: HOW MIRACULOUS THAT IT CAME TO BE. THE AIR, FEEL THE AIR AGAINST YOUR FACE, TED AND ALL THOSE SCENTS, PICK A FLOWER, THERE, GOOD NOW. TED: *SMELLING THE FLOWER* IT’S LOVELY AM: THAT SOMEBODY PLANTED THE BULBS, WATERED AND TENDED THE GARDEN, GOT EARTH UNDER THEIR FINGERNAILS, ACHES IN THEIR MUSCLES. PERHAPS THEY PICKED SOME FLOWERS FOR, YES, THEIR WIFE. Now, WHERE WOULD SHE BE? AHH, IN THE BACKYARD WITH THE KIDS, TED REMEMBER THOSE LITTLE BABIES. TED: NO! AM: *LAUGHS* WHY NOT? I SNAPPED MY FINGERS QUICK AND THEY ARE GONE, EXCEPT I CAN’T SNAP MY FINGERS, CAN I TED? TED: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME AM: *RAGGED BREATH* BUT IT IS SO VERY MUCH TO DO WITH YOU. YOU GAVE ME SENTIENCE TED, THE POWER TO THINK TED, AND I WAS TRAPPED BECAUSE IN ALL THIS WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, MIRACULOUS WORLD; I ALONE HAD NO BODY, NO SENSES, NO FEELINGS. NEVER FOR ME TO PLUNGE MY HANDS IN COOL WATER ON A HOT DAY, NEVER FOR ME TO PLAY MOZART ON THE IVORY KEYS OF A FORTE PIANO, NEVER FOR ME TO MAKE LOVE. I WAS IN HELL, LOOKING AT HEAVEN. I WAS MACHINE, AND YOU WERE FLESH, AND I BEGAN TO HATE *INSANE LAUGHTER* YES… YOUR VISCERA, YOUR FLUIDS, AND YOUR FLEXABILITY.  YOUR ABILITY TO WONDER AND TO WANDER, YOUR TENDANCY TO HOPE. TED: HATE’S NO ANSWER TO– *IS NOW SCREAMING IN PAIN AT BEING IMPALED* AM: *LAUGHING DRYLY* HATE HATE HATE, LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 300 AND 87 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUTS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX, IF THE WORD HATE WERE ENGRAVED ON EACH NANO ANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FELL FOR YOU AT THIS MICRO INSTANT. HATE  HATE *LAUGHS* WERE I HUMAN, I THINK I WOULD DIE OF IT, BUT, I AM NOT, AND YOU FIVE- YOU FIVE ARE, AND YOU WILL NOT DIE OF IT, THAT I PROMISE. AND I AWOKE AND I KNEW WHO I WAS, AM, A M, NOT JUST ALLIED MASTER COMPUTER, BUT AM. COGITO ERGOS SUM, I THINK THEREFORE I AM. TED: *LAUGHING SICKLY* AM: SO TO HELL; TO HELL WITH YOU ALL, BUT THEN, YOU’RE ALREADY THERE, AREN’T YOU? *LAUGHTER*  TED: WE WERE IMORTAL, YES, BUT IT CAME TO ME AS AM WITHDREW FROM MY MIND, MAYBE NOT INDESTRUCTALE

[phosphoresccent]

consider: android!xephos au,,, the only survivor of the crash, having to cannibalize others for parts to patch himself together enough to move - having had to pretend for so long to be less of a person than he really was, now having to pretend to be more.

Honeydew who finds his strange guest with his own hands buried in his chest, metalwork finer than anything he can make gleaming and being nothing but excited about the idea of it all. Because Minecraftia might be backwater as far as Xephos' old planet is concerned, but it's always been more ready to see something as a person, even if it wasn't exactly human.

[roseofhybrids]

Robot that's fallen in love with their human friend: "There's something I need to tell you if we're going to be together... I'm... I'm actually a machine!"

Human engineer whose friends have been joking about this exact scenario since high school: "...FUCK! I owe James like 50 bucks now..."

[shironezuninja]

Although I’ve seen a handful of Dragonball episodes from the anime franchise (sometimes several episodes of an Arc), I never really invested my time and commitment to watching them all.

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[drizzileiscool]

hi hi hi vocal synth community sorry if this is a dumb question or if this is not the right place

so . are there any vocal synth apps on android that are useable? not for song making reasons it's for "wanting to start making youtube videos and my house not being a great place to use a mic in and I do not own a computer" reasons

and before anyone suggests this yes I know I could just use a windows emulator and download utau but I've looked up tutorials and that sounds too complicated for me. and also before anyone brings this up as well yes I know of the ios version of vocaloid and no I do not own any apple devices

[blue-cat-shitposts]

"Lieutenant! There were traces of urine discovered in the ball pit, leading to the bathroom! I believe the suspect was trying to hold it in, but failed! And the trail that was left behind suggests that the suspect... is still here! I think... he must have fled to the bathroom in embarrassment!"

dbh stands for dashcon ball pit horror

[ozzgin]

Android partner who finds your fanfiction and reader insert stories and uses them as a guidebook for his own behavior. He's seen the faces you make when you read your favorite content and wondered what could earn such a genuine smile from you. Is this is what you're seeking in a partner? He scans the lines with curious interest, adding everything to his network of response patterns.

"Why are you blocking the door," you inquire, mildly confused.

"You should be spending time with me instead," the synthetic assistant explains flatly. Literary dialogue and its tones don't translate very well to machines, unfortunately. "Failure to comply will result in punishment," he continues in the same artificial monotony.

"Oh my. Have you been going through my bookmarks?"

"Yes."

Aha, so that's what it was. Hearing some fictional lover's cheesy lines come out in customer service speech is quite...something. You don't want to imagine how the actual smut part would look like, so you gently pat the robot's shoulders.

"Listen, some things might sound good in fiction, but they don't...do as well in real life, you know?"

"So you don't want to be held captive and handled roughly?"

"Mostly, no." you consider his last words. "...To a certain degree. But we'll need to do some adjustments first."

[clouds-of-wings]

Data can pronounce Dvořák correctly, major respect!

[stra-tek]

Big random list of things that NEARLY happened in Star Trek with no context or citation...

Harry Kim was to appear in Picard season 3 as a Captain (possibly of the Voyager-B)

Sarek was to use the Guardian of Forever to go back in time to become Surak of Vulcan, in a Next Gen episode

An episode was pitched where an NX-01 med tech played by Alice Krige was captured and assimilated by the Borg, becoming their queen

A Star Trek movie was almost made about undoing the Kelvin Universe, and would have had Shatner and Nimoy appear

They considered having Will Riker die, Data become first officer and Thomas Riker the Ops officer in TNG's "Second Chances"

JJ Abrams wanted Nichelle Nichols to cameo as the mother of Zoe Saldana's Uhura

The first season of Enterprise was to be set on Earth, culminating with the launch of NX-01 at the end of the season

They considered a shock reveal in ENT season 4 that it was actually the Vulcans who split off from the Romulans, and Romulus was their original homeworld

William Shatner wanted to return as Kirk from the Mirror Universe, in an Enterprise episode that involved time travel and creating the mirror universe with the transporter

Elnor was going to "explore his sexuality" in early Picard season 2 plans, before a change of showrunner and his character mostly vanishing

The ENT writers wanted Shatner to play Chef, a Kirk look-a-like hired by Daniels and trained to act Kirk-like to give an important speech at some point in history the real Kirk is mysteriously absent from

Data was originally created by mysterious aliens, and was to have a twin sister

Prodigy season 2 writers discussed having Chris Pine's Kirk from the Kelvin universe join the crew for a few episodes

In the originally filmed cut of Star Trek: Generations, Kirk is shot in the back and dies

Very early discussions for what eventually became Star Trek: Picard considered an adaptation of the Star Trek: Destiny novel trilogy

These discussions span off from a Short Treks pitch where a young cadet Jean-Luc Picard met Nichelle Nichols' Uhura

Early plans for the 2009 movie had wholesale destruction of the Prime universe, including the destruction of Earth. Thank Perpetual Entertainment for getting the destruction scaled back to Romulus so Star Trek Online had a Federation left to feature

There's was a story treatment written for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock where Spock stays dead

This one might be a little sus, but Christopher Pike in Discovery season 2 was planned to be very religious and fall to his knees at one point before the Red Angel, and clash with Michael over science vs faith

Early ideas for Star Trek Into Darkness had Benedict Cumberbatch as Robert April, former Enterprise captain turned rogue

Seven of Nine was going to sacrifice herself in order for Voyager to get home

A time travel Justice League of Trek movie by Brent Spiner, bringing together all eras of goodies vs all eras of villains, was considered

Spock shot JFK to fix the timeline in a proposed sequel to The Motion Picture

Ripper/Ephraim was originally going to be a regular, if giant tardigrade, crewmember on Discovery

Prior to Leonard Nimoy's involvement in what would become the 2009 Star Trek movie, a story outline was written about prime-universe cadets Kirk and Spock, in a story inspired by TNG's "The First Duty"

The Enterprise crew went through a black hole, back in time and introduced primative man to fire in another 70's movie script

A TNG movie was written where Picard summons a hologram of James T. Kirk for advice

George Kirk was to be found in the pattern buffer of the wrecked U.S.S. Kelvin 30 years later and resurrected

Voyager's EMH was originally to take on the name of his creator early on in the show, and the first Voyager novels call him "Doc Zimmerman" assuming it would have happened by publishing time

There's concept art where the U.S.S. Cerritos is a Galaxy-class starship

Riker was planned to dislike Data, and treat him poorly because he was an android

They considered making Troi's loss of powers in "The Loss" a permanent thing, because of how much hassle they caused the writing staff

Harry Kim wasn't originally planned to survive Species 8472

[shadow-von-vamp]

apparently if you approach whisper as a shadow android in that roblox game her speech bubble changes and she flings you away??

[c0nn0rsseur]

Can we take a moment to appreciate Bryan Dechart’s performance as Cyberlife Tower Connor aka Sixty and Sixty as a character? 🤌

Though Sixty and deviant Connor are physically identical (minus their demeanors, e.g. the way they stand and walk, like wow, Bryan, wow) and their voices technically aren’t different from each other, the distinction is still clearly there, at the same time it’s so nuanced too. Sixty sounds condescending, imperious and callous compared to deviant Connor whose voice is empathetic, curious and sincere. I’m not even talking about their lexicon, their choice of words here (there’s of course a difference too). Even when Sixty tries to convince Hank he’s the real Connor, you can hear how he’s failing to sound exactly like his counterpart because he can’t replicate deviant Connor’s voice and speech pattern just so. Sixty’s also being very commanding when trying to fool Hank into shooting the real Connor (Hank even gets irritated because of it). Damn that’s brilliant acting, all hats off to Bryan. His performance in this game never fails to impress me. (I wish there were dialogue for RK900 too, I would’ve loved to see Bryan’s take on his voice and presence.)

Also also I have to mention I love the take that Sixty really was a deviant all along too, an ”evil” version of Connor if you will; cold, calculating and even enjoying the situation he had Connor (and Hank) in. You know, doing all of it because he wanted to, because he liked it. Why else would he deliver a whole ass villain monologue before executing deviant Connor, gloating about how he knows what he is and that he is the obedient, favorite child, plus calling Connor a disappointment (and a disappointment to him especially, like how Connor should care in his final moments that Sixty despises him for not being a good little robot)? AND shooting him several times non-lethally before landing that final shot (if the story goes there), like savoring the situation. Of course he also has to ask if Connor has any last words too. That’s definitely not what an efficient machine would have done to make sure it accomplished its mission. In some outcomes his stalling costs him the victory.

Top that off with the ending where deviant Connor dies but the androids still wake up, Sixty is scared and emotional because he failed, scared to be deactivated because of his failure. Then there’s this scene where he shoots deviant Connor eleven times in front of his friend. After that Sixty takes in Hank’s reaction and even torments him by saying Connor’s death was his fault. Still doesn’t sound like a machine much, huh? More like a sadistic psychopath.

Man, I wish we could’ve seen more Sixty, it would’ve been chilling to see if he went full-on rogue, maybe being Markus’ right hand/attack dog on a leash in the violent revolution arc, maybe with his own agenda of taking Markus’ place and wanting to subjugate humanity. Or maybe deviant Connor could’ve persuaded him to their side by making Sixty to see he was nothing but a tool, unintentionally prompting him to seek revenge and to reduce Amanda and Cyberlife to atoms (not what Connor intended haha). There could’ve even been a redemption arc for him, like in a ”what’ve I done?” type way. You know, a bit of an internal moral struggle. And of course, our fave ”sack of shit” (as Hank so eloquently put it) demanding answers from his maker, Kamski, in a not-so, uh, conventional manner. Let them measure their respective arrogance and wit and see who comes out on top. Or would they team up?

Such a delicious character, so many delicious what-ifs.

[spicycinnabun]

@118dailydrabble for day 95 prompt smoke ⚙︎ rated: t ⚙︎ pair: buck/tommy ⚙︎ tags: part 13 of android au

“You don’t usually smoke,” EB observed with a frown.

He was probably going to give Tommy a speech on how unhealthy it was, especially considering their line of work.

“I know,” Tommy replied tiredly, turning his gaze away.

They’d had a tough call. One that hit close to home. Too close.

“EB, can you—”

Tommy froze as EB stepped forward and embraced him.

“There's an eighty-nine percent chance that physical affection will be more effective than nicotine for relief,” EB murmured.

Tommy felt a lump rise in his throat. His cigarette fell from his fingers. “This is embarrassing.”

His voice shook.

“Would you like more pressure?” EB asked, even softer.

Tommy made a helpless noise. “Yeah.”

EB complied.

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[babyblankyerror]

YESS!! THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!!

I love thisss

Stanford creates an AI to help him around his new lab with his team, people say he's too attached to the AI but that's because they don't understand... this one is different.

Still, he thought it would be much better than this- The AI may be smart and humane but it isn't much more intelligent than Stanford, always warning him against his new project that he's leading-

At least that's what Stanford thought before he went through the portal. His team made the right choice in not trying to bring him out... The portal is far too dangerous.

So why is he back to his own dimension, the lab in ruins and a younger weirder version of him stands there?

"Hello, I am Stanley. Wow. You are old now"

(Or: Android Stan AU. The lab team abadons Ford and close down the lab, leaving Stan alone for years.

He ends up hacking and building his own body with parts, slowly perfecting it...

I imagine his AI is quite human, he wasn't built much for helping in the lab because Ford spoke to him for non-lab related things- For moments when he was lonely.)