Comment by saghm

The local classic rock radio station in Boston used to have Alice Cooper hosting a certain night each week (I think Friday or Saturday, and presumably pre-recorded and remotely. Maybe he still does it? I haven't lived there for a while now). He was pretty funny! I'd honestly love to have a voice assistant that sounds like him; maybe the way to deal with both the question about what gender the assistant's voice should be and not having to worry about having generated pronunciations sound natural is just to pay some celebrity a bunch of money (and/or some royalties for the assistant) to spend a month in a studio recording a huge amount of stuff with varied pitch and tone and vocabulary and then that to splice together the assistant's responses. Bonus is bringing them back after a year or so to record more stuff to smooth over any rough edges that are found!