By “Speedenza” for freesound.org, 11 July 2015

14 Robots recite Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee…)

This was a test of various robot and computer voice techniques – the goal was to make robots that are more articulate than the typical monotone robots that you get using basic vocoding.

There was a rationale behind this [really!] which is that poetry requires a degree of expression and subtlety, so it was thought to be a good test of the robot voices.

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