History Main / RoboSpeak

** The D1 Beetle in the remake says something similar, although less {{Engrish}}y.

* Creator/StephenHawking's famous near-monotone voice synthesizer. He turned down many offers to improve and humanise the voice, saying that it's become the voice that people expect him to have. And of course it is recognised the world over.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': [[spoiler:Dr. Letz Shake.]] "Do you remember me. Question mark."

* Chachamaru, the RobotGirl of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', is voiced in anime by Creator/CaitlinGlass, and sounds like [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data's]] British sister, as described at the end of this page's notes above.

* Menders and Heavy Drone B-33 from ''VideoGame/BugFables'' speak entirely in robotic messages.

* Andrew in ''Film/BicentennialMan'' seems to suffer from this in the beginning, referring to himself as "one" rather than "I" or "me". However, as he becomes a real boy over the course of the movie, his speech becomes more natural as well.

Compare SpockSpeak. See also PickYourHumanHalf.

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* In ''WebVideo/PlanetDolan'', Ladybot sometimes speaks in a feminine, monotonous voice, fitting her name and nature as a {{Fembot}}.

"Why. Did we. Start talking. Like robots?"
--->*shrug*

--->"Uh, hey, everybody! Stop having fun, because I am boring! And you should be boring too!"
--->"I do NOT talk like that!"
--->"Yes. You. Do."
--->"Now that's just your robot voice."
--->"End. Transmission."

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TrueLove": Milton is a programmer, and Joe is his experimental program. As the story progresses, Joe's dialogue gets longer, but it always retains a certain amount of fictional computer jargon, especially in the narration.

* Discussed in ''Film/TheSmurfsTwo'': Patrick starts talking to his wife Grace's fetus in a monotone and saying, "This is the sound of my voice." Grace says, "That is not the sound of your voice, that is the voice of a robot."

Being usually perceived as servants, robots often lack a sense of individuality and will always refer to themselves as "[[ThirdPersonPerson This unit]]" or simply state what they are doing in gerund without any personal pronouns. Examples: "THIS UNIT IS READY FOR DEPLOYMENT", "FIXING MECHANISMS".

Being usually perceived as servants, robots usually lack a sense of individuality and will always refer to themselves as "[[ThirdPersonPerson This unit]]" or simply state what they are doing in gerund without any personal pronouns. Examples: "THIS UNIT IS READY FOR DEPLOYMENT", "FIXING MECHANISMS".

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games:

* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogAndTheSiliconWarriors'', our hero is trying to taunt a computer (ItMakesSenseInContext) and has little success, until he unleashes an epic stream of invective in the spirit of this trope:

** "Give me the bird."
** E-123 Omega from ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', on the other hand, gets an angry monotone, but better lines ("WORTHLESS CONSUMER MODELS!"). Interestingly, his voiced renditions of stock answers like "Affirmative.", "Negative." or "Illogical, does not compute!" fit his serious but also very angry character quite well.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', he sounds more robotic, to a fault.

** Mister Handies, Mister Gutsies and Miss Nannies completely avert this, having fully expressive voices. This is justified, because they were meant to better endear themselves to their human masters, and also because many of these models actually GrewBeyondTheirProgramming long after the end of the war, with Codsworth being a notable example. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Synths]] from the fourth game also avert Robo Speak. Another major exception are [[BrainInAJar Robobrains]], which makes sense considering they are powered by human brains, but they still engage in some playful robo speak for fun.

** Mister Handies, Mister Gutsies and Miss Nannies completely avert this, having fully expressive voices. This is justified, because they were meant to better endear themselves to their human masters, and also because many of these models actually GrewBeyondTheirProgramming long after the end of the war, with Codsworth being anotable example. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Synths]] from the fourth game also avert Robo Speak. Another major exception are [[BrainInAJar Robobrains]], which makes sense considering they are powered by human brains, but they still engage in some playful robo speak for fun.

** Mister Handies, Mister Gutsies and Miss Nannies completely avert this, having fully expressive voices and possessing varied personalities, making them the franchise's more or less equivalent of protocol droids. This is justified, because many of these models actually GrewBeyondTheirProgramming long after the end of the war. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Synths]] from the fourth game also avert Robo Speak. Another major exception are [[BrainInAJar Robobrains]], which makes sense considering they are powered by human brains, but they still engage in some playful robo speak for fun.

** Mister Handies, Mister Gutsies and Miss Nannies completely avert this, having fully expressive voices and possessing varied personalities, making them the franchise's more or less equivalent of protocol droids. This is justified, because many of these moseld actually GrewBeyondTheirProgramming long after the end of the war. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Synths]] from the fourth game also avert Robo Speak. Another major exception are [[BrainInAJar Robobrains]], which makes sense considering they are powered by human brains, but they still engage in some playful robo speak for fun.

** Mister Handies, Mister Gutsies and Miss Nannies completely avert this, having fully expressive voices and possessing varied personalities, making them the franchise's more or less equivalent of protocol droids. This is justified, as these models are meant to better endear themselves to the humans around them given the tasks they perform. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Synths]] from the fourth game also avert Robo Speak. Another major exception are [[BrainInAJar Robobrains]], which makes sense considering they are powered by human brains, but they still engage in some playful robo speak for fun.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' fanchise [[PlayedWith often plays with this trope]]. Most bots usually speak like this, particularly those designed for combat and war, such as Protectrons, Assaultrons and Sentinels. [[HumongousMecha Liberty Prime]] and [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas the Securitrons]] show more emotion in their dialogue, but still speak like other bots, with Liberty Prime's dialogue in particular being filled with pro-American, anti-communist propaganda. Modified Protectrons and combat robots have more varied dialogue and show some more expression, but can still revert to Robo Speak whenever they get hacked or encounter an error in their software and Protectrons in particular almost always have a MachineMonotone.

* The''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' fanchise [[PlayedWith often plays with this trope]]. Most bots usually speak like this, particularly those designed for combat and war, such as Protectrons, Assaultrons and Sentinels. [[HumongousMecha Liberty Prime]] and [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas the Securitrons]] show more emotion in their dialogue, but still speak like other bots, with Liberty Prime's dialogue in particular being filled with pro-American, anti-communist propaganda. Modified Protectrons and combat robots have more varied dialogue and show some more expression, but can still revert to Robo Speak whenever they get hacked or encounter an error in their software and Protectrons in particular almost always have a MachineMonotone.