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* Nu-13 of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' speaks almost entirely in MachineMonotone Robo Speak complete with LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which is creepy as hell coming from what looks like a human girl.

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Nu-13 of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' speaks almost entirely in MachineMonotone Robo Speak complete with LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which is creepy as hell coming from what looks like a human girl.girl. The only time she doesn't is when she's around Ragna, and [[{{Yandere}} even he doesn't want that]].
** Fellow Murakumo unit Mu-12 does speak like this from time to time when she's [[MindRape broken]], but under her "normal" identity of Noel Vermillion she doesn't... at least, until Amane Nishiki compliments the "young man" for cosplaying in women's clothing, dropping her into Murakumo mode out of sheer enmity. She's back to normal once she's defeated him, however.
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** In the very first appearance of the Mondas Cybermen way back in 1966, they had ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGsXq9LU-Y4 bizARRely INflecTED SING-song voiCES]]'' because it was assumed by the production team that that was how computers would actually speak. Fortunately it was quickly realised how ridiculous that sounded, and their more well-known buzzing monotone voices were introduced from their second appearance.

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** In the very first appearance of the Mondas Cybermen way back in 1966, they had ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGsXq9LU-Y4 ''[[https://youtu.be/-Yi1l1sOO_s?si=xKUK9UJdJMCmBaPR bizARRely INflecTED SING-song voiCES]]'' because it was assumed by the production team that that was how computers would actually speak. Fortunately it was quickly realised how ridiculous that sounded, and their more well-known buzzing monotone voices were introduced from their second appearance.
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* In the ''Literature/IsaacAsimovsCaliban'' novel ''Utopia'', the terraforming computer Dum has a deliberately crude voice synthesizer, to make it clear to its human operators that they're dealing with a "dumb" machine, not one of the ThreeLawsCompliant robots they're accustomed to.
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* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': The Raven unit (a flying DroneDeployer support caster) is ostensibly piloted by a human, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXE9yNPVd8 but all its voicelines]] are delivered in as flat, stilted and robotic a tone as possible.
-->Raven, online.\\
This vessel will com-ply.\\
This vessel requires ass-istance.\\
What a blast- this- will be.
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* Nu-13, the final boss of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' speaks almost entirely in MachineMonotone Robo Speak complete with LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which is creepy as hell coming from what looks like a human girl.

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* Nu-13, the final boss Nu-13 of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' speaks almost entirely in MachineMonotone Robo Speak complete with LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading, which is creepy as hell coming from what looks like a human girl.



* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' used the same strategy as its predecessor, in the few instances where you got to talk to robots. However, the unofficial English translation has them speaking in straight ALLCAPS, with no onomatopoeia.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' ''VideoGame/Mother3'' used the same strategy as its predecessor, in the few instances where you got to talk to robots. However, the unofficial English translation has them speaking in straight ALLCAPS, with no onomatopoeia.



* RobotGirl Aigis in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' seems to lack robot speak to the same extent as KOS-MOS above, generally lacking inflection to sound "robotic", but still has some emotion, such as when she confronts Ryoji when [[spoiler:she finally remembers that's he's death's harbinger]]. This only applies to the English voice cast, however. The Japanese voice for Aigis seems to have avoided this trope. Japanese Aigis has normal inflections but speaks in very generic, to the point, militaryish grammar. The robot speak in the English was an attempt to convey that. Aigis starts to talk normally towards the end of the game, much like how Aigis in English eventually starts to sound less robotic.

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* RobotGirl Aigis in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' ''VideoGame/Persona3'' seems to lack robot speak to the same extent as KOS-MOS above, generally lacking inflection to sound "robotic", but still has some emotion, such as when she confronts Ryoji when [[spoiler:she finally remembers that's he's death's harbinger]]. This only applies to the English voice cast, however. The Japanese voice for Aigis seems to have avoided this trope. Japanese Aigis has normal inflections but speaks in very generic, to the point, militaryish grammar. The robot speak in the English was an attempt to convey that. Aigis starts to talk normally towards the end of the game, much like how Aigis in English eventually starts to sound less robotic.






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* PlayedWith for Machine Head in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}'': as a cyborg, his manner of speech is [[LargeHam very animated]], but his voice sounds [[AutoTune autotuned]].

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* PlayedWith Played with for Machine Head in ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}'': ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': as a cyborg, his manner of speech is [[LargeHam very animated]], but his voice sounds [[AutoTune autotuned]].



* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Imitation Krabs", Plankton creates and pilots a robot version of Mr. Krabs to infiltrate the Krusty Krab. Everything he says, even laughter, comes out as robo-speak, adding to the PaperThinDisguise. [[MachineMonotone "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Imitation Krabs", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E4DyingForPieImitationKrabs Imitation Krabs]]", Plankton creates and pilots a robot version of Mr. Krabs to infiltrate the Krusty Krab. Everything he says, even laughter, comes out as robo-speak, adding to the PaperThinDisguise. [[MachineMonotone "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"]]"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"]]

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