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** Dee Klatt, a {{GenderBender}} cyborg voiced by [=DECTalk=] (Steven Hawking's voice unit).

* The main menu theme of ''Videogame/SlapCity'' is sung by a [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloid]].

* The fan-made Yukkuris in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise tend to be voiced like this, most often by the [=AquesTalk=] text-to-speech software.

* ''Videogame/FreeSpace 2'', the open-source version, has this feature, usually taking installed Windows text-to-speech soundbanks, to provide in-game voices. The feature is optional.

* In VideoGame/ProjectSekai, all of the Virtual Singers are voiced by their respective NT software. Datamining shows that the developers use the casts voice actors as a reference for their dialogue.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fan-works, especially ones animated with Source Filmmaker are very prone to this with most of the animatronics using text-to-speech programs like Speakonia.

* Puppycat of ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'' is voiced by the Music/{{Vocaloid}} Oliver.

* #1 in ''WebAnimation/TheGmodIdiotBox'' uses the voice of Microsoft Sam when he's seated in front of a computer.

* ''WebAnimation/RatboyGenius'' uses them for every character. Except Happyman, Green Monster, the Summer Solstice Baby, and all characters in the Red Planet and Galactic Superheroes series, which are all creator Ryan Dorin's voice heavily pitch-shifted and in many cases [[AutoTune autotuned]].
* Gary [[spoiler:aka Gamma]], the AI/computer from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. He regularly appears as the announcer for the Red Vs. Blue theory discussion podcast, ''Let's Figure This Out Shizno''.

* ''Webvideo/{{Zerolenny}}'' uses Oddcast's "Daniel (UK)" voice (originally known for its use in MLG montage parodies) for the voice of Robolenny.

* ''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.