Robot AI voice

Make a flat robot voice break into sobs.

In this scene, Unit Nine fakes a laugh and fakes a cry to pass its last test. Then it hears its maker is gone, and the flat voice breaks into sobs.
Every voice in this video was made in LyricWinter Studio from the script below.

How to direct a line like this

  • 1

    Paste your chapter

    Open Studio and paste a chapter as you wrote it. Studio finds who's speaking, gives each character a voice and reads how each line should sound from your writing.
  • 2

    Type a slash to direct a line

    To choose how a line sounds, type a slash (/) before it, pick Emotion, then pick a suggestion or type your own direction, like [a robotic voice breaking into real sobs]. The voice follows it and doesn't say it.
    [a robotic voice breaking into real sobs]
    Processing. That is not, hhh. That is not, hhhuh, what is this. hhhuuuuh. Make it stop. hhhuuuuuuh. Did I pass?
  • 3

    Press Create audio

    Studio performs your chapter. To change a line, edit its direction and press Create audio again. Studio remakes the lines you changed.
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How to get this sound

Write the breaths, "hhh" and "hhhuuuuh", between the words where the crying breaks through.

The script behind this scene

Words in brackets are directions. The voice follows them and doesn't say them out loud.
  • MILLER
    [flat, clinical]
    Last test, Unit Nine. If you pass, you stay. Please laugh like a human.
  • NINE
    [flat, robotic, spoken not laughed]
    Ha ha ha.
  • MILLER
    [flat, clinical]
    Please cry like a human.
  • NINE
    [flat, robotic]
    Boo hoo. Sob. Sob.
  • MILLER
    [quiet, sad]
    Your maker shut down last night, Nine. She asked for you at the end.
  • NINE
    [a robotic voice breaking into real sobs]
    Processing. That is not, hhh. That is not, hhhuh, what is this. hhhuuuuh. Make it stop. hhhuuuuuuh. Did I pass?
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