Would you like to have robot as a partner?

exchemist said:
Yeah but even here still has that little girl lack of depth to her voice that I found so grating. Something to do with lack of lower harmonics, perhaps? Anyway, it's just a personal thing but I don't like her voice. I've always preferred the rich, womanly tone of a good (but not operatic) mezzo or contralto.
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Have you heard Gracie ?

 
Pinball1970 said:
However, criticise Kate Bush explicitly and I will invade Poland and annex the Sudetenland.
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Kate Bush, shrieking Death Harpie regurgitating glass shards into Betty Boop's severed larynx while experiencing abdominal cramps.

Sorry, Poland. Sudetenland, you knew this was coming.

JK. But I don't care for her voice.
 
Jam Bots... ...scullery maids... ...Kate Bush... ...Kate Middleton... ...Katie bar the door...

Just gimmee a handful of these. I'll figure out something practical for them to do once I sober up. :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
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EDIT: Special mod is they gotta have speakers built into their boobs so they can play the theme song whenever they walk into the room:

 
exchemist said:
For some reason I can cope with Debbie Harry, though. I think it's because even though she mainly sings in a fairly high tessitura, in her lower register, when you hear her, there is some warmth and depth.
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Nailed it. Great pipes.
 
(Q) said:
. I've enjoyed more the sound of several feral cats fighting.
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I'm not a pro fact checker or anything remotely like one, but I think feral cats and domestic cats sound indistinguishable when fighting. Perhaps that's for another thread.
 
Killjoy said:
Have you heard Gracie ?

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I have now. Sounds very, er, forceful. Not a little girl voice, that's for sure!

I was listening to Handel's Esther the other night while cooking (I've recently experimented with wiring up speakers from the stereo system in the living room through to my kitchen), and that's what brought Patrizia to mind. Here she is in the most beautiful duet from it, with tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson:

By the way, just for the avoidance of doubt in view of the tone of some of this discussion, I'm on good terms with both Patrizia and her husband Robin, so this is purely about her singing, which I loved in the 80s and 90s. I was amazed to find, 30 years later when I joined our local church choir, that she was singing in it! So that's how I know her. Long since retired by that time but still with a great voice. Mean cello player too. This was her in her heyday:
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exchemist said:
You would want to ask me about Kate Bush?
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Ok, I would talk to you about Kate Bush, probably at you for a bit I admit it. Preferably in a quiet pub with a piano and an internet juke box. Craft beers and a kitchen with locally sourced/farmed products.
I would not sell her voice to you but perhaps her musical abilities.
 
Pinball1970 said:
Ok, I would talk to you about Kate Bush, probably at you for a bit I admit it. Preferably in a quiet pub with a piano and an internet juke box. Craft beers and a kitchen with locally sourced/farmed products.
I would not sell her voice to you but perhaps her musical abilities.
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A tutorial in fact! :) But with proper beer instead of improvising with white rum or whatever was in his cupboard, as Richard Wayne did.
 
Olga said:
I recently watced a music video by a singer named Ernesto Vernel. I was impressed. It's hard to tell the difference from a real singer. This got me thinking: what if in the future we could choose a robot as our partner? It will be possible to order it according to your preferences. It can be swapped for another one when this one gets tiresome, without any remorse. Is this possible in the future? Would you like it to be possible?
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Given all the incels getting by with mere technologically sophisticated sex dolls, the standard would be much more difficult to accomplish with robot males. Since they would have to actually be useful -- able to repair things, be adept at dining conversation, etc.

Android companions would intensify demographic collapse, a situation which already alarms governments and sends them reeling into insane maneuvers and antics (we don't need more of that). Artificial insemination would have to be heavily promoted to compensate, along with "Rosie the robot Jetson nanny" to handle the surge in children. And this adds yet another item to the elevated feature list of requirements for robot male partners, in a costly or high-priced era: The capacity to get and hold down a job.
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Olga said:
It will be possible to order it according to your preferences. It can be swapped for another one when this one gets tiresome, without any remorse.
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This would engender some extremely bad habits.

It's somehat akin to what porn and fashon mags did. Young men got a very idealized and objectified impression of what real women looked like and what real romance and sex was like.
 
Honestly? No. I already spend half my life staring at screens. The last thing I want is my "partner" to run on Wi-Fi and updates. Human connection is messy but it's real
 
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