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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I heard the same voice. We were in my friends Tesla and she asked for the nearest coffee shop. It directed us to a grocery store and stressed the “chill vibes.” My friend said “no, a coffee shop” and the voice said “My bad. Total brain fart.” with vocal fry. I wanted to kill it![/quote]

Yes, mine was a written voice, not audible, but it was the same idea. I think one reason it's so off-putting is that it's basically aping a style of speaking that is already pretty fake and mannered. Like if I went into a store in person and the salesperson was pulling dresses and saying "oh this is SO in your lane," I'd be irritated because (1) that's just a dumb turn of phrase, and (2) she doesn't actually know me, and it feels familiar in a fake, chummy way that grates. But at least she's a real person and I can chalk it up to her just trying to do her job. To add the layer of the chatbot being a robot adopting a fake, friendly, casual salesperson voice to try and sell me on actively bad suggestions just makes it worse.

I would much prefer if it had a not-human-sounding robot voice. Like if it just had perfect grammar and was a little bit stilted. That would make sense because it's a robot, not my gal pal. I don't think trying to sound human is always the right goal.[/quote]

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