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* ''Film/ShortCircuit'' likewise used [=TextAssist=] for the voice of the robots, ''except'' for Johnny 5, who was dubbed by a voice actor to show that he really had emotions.

* The eponymous characters and Cortana of ''WebVideo/ArbyNTheChief''.

* The Intellivision's Intellivoice module.

* The episode title announcer in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' was a [[Platform/AppleMacintosh Macintosh]] program named [=PlainTalk=] (often falsely called "Whisperer" because of its "Whisper" voice mode).

* Most characters in ''Website/GoAnimate'' have TTS voices, but there are some videos with real voices.

* From the amount of Loquendo videos on Website/YouTube, you'd imagine half of Latin America's a robot.

* Creator/Wileyk209zback: Besides his WebVideo/BarneyBunch and Website/GoAnimate videos, he's also used such means in [=YouTube=] Poops...

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* All the cameos of Music/HatsuneMiku in the third season of ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'' have the NT version of her voice synthesizer voicing her lines, unlike the appearance of her character in '' Anime/ShinkansenHenkeiRoboShinkalion'', in which Creator/SakiFujita herself voices her [[ComputerVoice by using Vocaloid-esque voice effects]]. However, the regular voice provider for Miku [[SpecialThanks still appears]] in the ''[=DomDX=]'' credits anyway.

* The Tandy UsefulNotes/ColorComputer has the ''Speech/Sound Program Pak'' which is apparently using the same synth chip as the ''Currah Speech 64''.

* The Platform/ZXSpectrum has the ''Cheetah Sweet Talker'', of which those who own one would attest that it sound anything but sweet- its synthesis was even compared to the voice of a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]]. The Cheetah Sweet Talker also uses phoneme splicing, and at its heart is a General Instruments [=SP0256-AL2=] speech chip, the same chip used in the Intellivision Intellivoice module, the Platform/{{Odyssey 2}} voice module and the UsefulNotes/ColorComputer Speech/Sound Cartridge.

* The episode title announcer in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' was a [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Macintosh]] program named [=PlainTalk=] (often falsely called "Whisperer" because of its "Whisper" voice mode).

* ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' used the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} speech synthesizer for the voices of the good Bill and Ted robots.

* Several UsefulNotes/AppleII sound cards include a speech chip, if not a DIP socket for a speech chip upgrade. Usually these take Votrax SC-1 or SSI-263 chips.

* UsefulNotes/Commodore64:

* ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest'' from [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner The Brothers Chaps]] uses this for Trogdor's voice. WordOfGod is that they used the ''Software Automatic Mouth'' program on an UsefulNotes/AppleII with a supported sound card to generate the source speech.

* ''VideoGame/{{Safecracker}}'' has two safes (a voice-activated one, and a vault at the endgame), which operate using voice clips spoken by the [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh PlainTalk]] voice, "Victoria".

* The third chapter of ''VideoGame/StoriesUntold'' centers on tuning into several [[NumbersStation number stations]], all of which are read out in generic text-to-speech voices. At least two male ones stem from [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh MacInTalk]].

** It wasn't the first video game tie-in for Franchise/{{Tron}} to use this. The standing arcade game and ''Tron Solar Sailer'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} (using the Intellovoice attachment) also used synthetic voice sound clips in-game. Given the franchise in question, it was a rather appropriate use!

* The UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum has the ''Cheetah Sweet Talker'', of which those who own one would attest that it sound anything but sweet- its synthesis was even compared to the voice of a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]]. The Cheetah Sweet Talker also uses phoneme splicing, and at its heart is a General Instruments [=SP0256-AL2=] speech chip, the same chip used in the Intellivision Intellivoice module, the UsefulNotes/{{Odyssey 2}} voice module and the UsefulNotes/ColorComputer Speech/Sound Cartridge.

** In "The Age-Old Mask Device," this is used for a couple of TV announcers, including one saying "Today on ''Series/MissionImpossible'', a ClipShow of this past season's highlights," and the other saying "And now, back to ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful]] [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toons]] ChristmasSpecial''." Both were done using the [=PlainTalk=] feature in UsefulNotes/MacOS.

* AUTO from ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. As if there weren't enough Apple references in the movie already, the voice is [[UsefulNotes/MacOS Mac OSX's]] own [=MacinTALK=]. Similarly, M-O's "Foreign Contaminant" is provided by [=PlainTalk=].

* Surprisingly, [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Siri]] averts this - voice actress Susan Bennett (and her international counterparts) spent five hours a day for four weeks voicing seemingly random words for [=ScanSoft=] (the company behind Siri's technology), who then sliced them up to form the phonemes and intonations that the search engine uses.

* Music/{{Beck}}'s [[http://youtu.be/qGUPXKG935c "Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)"]] has a deep synthetic voice echoing some of the lyrics.

* In ''Series/TheMandalorian'' season finale, Luke Skywalker's voice is this, using an A.I. voice simulator called Respeecher to compose new lines for the character using archival samples of Creator/MarkHamill's voice in the 70s and 80s, as the real Hamill's voice changed significantly since the ''Return of the Jedi'' days. This was carried forward with ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''.
* Respeecher was reused in ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' for Darth Vader due to Creator/JamesEarlJones, who was 91 years old during production, being too old to perform the character's menacing voice anymore [[note]]Jones' {{Role Reprise}}s as Vader in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' and ''Film/RogueOne'' sounded noticeably aged, and those instances were nearly a decade before production on ''Obi-Wan'' began. Even in Jones' non-''Star Wars'' roles, such as reprising Mufasa in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'', Jones' voice was much shakier and he was unable to emote like he used to.[[/note]]. It helps that Vader's voice is an in-universe example of this. Anakin's vocal cords were damaged by the hot gases on Mustafar, with the helmet enhancing his speech with a synthetic bass tone.

A Synthetic Voice Actor (or a [[PunnyTropeNames synthespian]]) is a synthetic voice program that voices a character. It's not used a lot, especially when union rules would make that difficult. It's usually used for extremely robotic voices, or a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/StephenHawking. It more commonly springs up in AbridgedSeries and {{machinima}}, partly to get extra voices, and partly because of RuleOfFunny. When used against human actors, it tends to make the speaker seem inhuman -- in more serious works, it's used for threatening robotic characters, usually. Compare the computer voice on the ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' (real person) to [[WesternAnimation/WallE AUTO]] (not a real person).

A Synthetic Voice Actor (or a [[JustForPun synthespian]]) is a synthetic voice program that voices a character. It's not used a lot, especially when union rules would make that difficult. It's usually used for extremely robotic voices, or a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/StephenHawking. It more commonly springs up in AbridgedSeries and {{machinima}}, partly to get extra voices, and partly because of RuleOfFunny. When used against human actors, it tends to make the speaker seem inhuman -- in more serious works, it's used for threatening robotic characters, usually. Compare the computer voice on the ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' (real person) to [[WesternAnimation/WallE AUTO]] (not a real person).

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': the Visor Robot speaks this way.