haha, you're right.
the main idea of toys and PC programs to deform human recordings to
sound more like a "robot" is just something well said by you, as the way
things "should be"... :)  In real, George Lucas went further (In the
first Star Wars) with the R2D2 that had a super brain, zillions of
megabytes of data storage and smart enough to repair a space attack ship
(on flight) and being able to understand all the complex mainframe
circuits of the enemy "death star ship" just hooking itself up to a 4
pin connector in the wall, but it was dumb stupid enough to not talk,
just wissling and beeping like two cheap NE555 chips in cascade... then
the other nice (human appearance) 3PO had a Harward education
equivalence in culture, perfect british english accent, but a
"commediant"... I can't understand Lucas...  in single tone:  "eeeeeh,
does nnnooooTT compuuuuTTe, eeeeh, me smarTT like a doooor knoBB".

Earth planet is funny, visit it at your next vacation.
YOU GOT TO SEE IT!!!
:)

Wagner

Nick Taylor wrote:
>
> Wagner:
>
> I agree totally ... and if my robot had a functional purpose such as
> bringing me a cold beer and lighting my cigar it would definitely
> have a delicate female voice, but my robot is only a toy and then
> nostalgia sets in ... it should sound like the Votrax card in my
> old CP/M computer sounded twenty years ago.  When you get to be an
> old fart like me, then you get fixed ideas about the way things
> "should be" ... and one of my perceptions is that a robot should
> sound "metalic - deformed - clipped - distorted - etc." ... and it
> should be able to say "Exterminate!, Exterminate!" and sound like
> a Dalek.
>
> Nick