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  1. Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series)

    List of episodes. " Miri " is the eighth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Adrian Spies and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on October 27, 1966. In the episode, the Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly man-made plague ...

  2. Star Trek's computer voice might be coming to Siri

    Sure, this tweet is no confirmation that Apple will unveil a Star Trek computer voice in Siri. But given that the much celebrated 50 year anniversary of the show lands on Sept. 8, one day after ...

  3. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry Paved the Way for Alexa and Siri

    Remembering the 'First Lady of Star Trek' Whose Voice Paved the Way for Alexa and Siri. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry would have been 90 this year — and she's featured in a current museum ...

  4. "Just Use the Keyboard": Review of The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek

    Liz W. Faber's book, The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri, is a highly innovative study of the (cultural) history of such voice-interactive computer technology, from early fictional computers in the 1960s, when almost all information technology was still brand new, to today's digital voice assistant Siri.

  5. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri on JSTOR

    A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri,HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Althoughcomputer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasin...

  6. Google Assistant Echoes Trek's Talking Computer

    Google is betting heavily on its new, evolving Google Assistant, with the technology giant's product being very publicly compared to Star Trek's talking computer.Google Assistant, according to a recent article by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times, brings together, into one unit, "data mining and artificial intelligence systems, from speech recognition to machine translation to computer vision."

  7. From Star Trek to Siri: How the Machine-Reading Revolution will ...

    Within a decade, computer knowledge acquired from "Big Text" will be available at any time, any place, and accessible via a dialog that would make the Star Trek Communicator proud and put Siri ...

  8. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri

    A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek 's computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male?

  9. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri

    She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the '70s and '80s to the feminine ones of the '90s and '00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI ...

  10. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri

    A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek's computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male?

  11. Star Trek's Iconic Computer Voice Might Be Headed to Your Phone

    From the early days of the original series through 2009's reboot, there was one voice behind Star Trek's Library Computer Access/Retrieval System, better known as LCARS: Majel Barrett.Voicing ...

  12. The voice of Star Trek's LCARS computer may soon be available ...

    Majel Barrett, wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, was the voice of Starfleet's computer system. She died in 2008 but a digital version of her voice is being created "for things such as Siri".

  13. With the magic of phoneme analysis, Star Trek: Discovery can still use

    A tweet from the official @roddenberry (Opens in a new window) account says that thanks to the magic of phoneme analysis, Majel's voice could be in Star Trek: Discovery, or even "things like Siri."

  14. Star Trek's iconic computer voice may live on in your phone

    Star Trek's iconic computer voice may live on in your phone. Roddenberry Entertainment says Majel Barrett's voice could return 'for things such as Siri.'. Whenever we talk about natural language ...

  15. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri

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  16. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri

    The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. Liz W. Faber. University of Minnesota Press, 2020 - Computers - 256 pages. A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some ...

  17. Majel Barrett's Voice has not yet Been Used for Siri

    In Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager, Barrett's voice was the default voice of the ship's computer. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Barrett voiced the Federation computer system.

  18. Star Trek communicator replica is worthy of the Enterprise

    It's imprinted with the words "U.S.S. Enterprise Standard Issue Communicator." The communicator also ships in a very attractive case and does come with a pleather holder and a micro-USB charging ...

  19. PDF The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri , by Liz Faber

    106 • SFRA Review 53.1 • Winter 2023 SFRA Review 53.1 • Winter 2023 • 107 NONFICTION REVIEWS The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri, by Liz Faber Bryce L. King Liz Faber. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri.University of Minnesota Press, 2020.Paperback. 226 pg. $27.00.

  20. "Star Trek" Miri (TV Episode 1966)

    Miri: Directed by Vincent McEveety. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kim Darby, Michael J. Pollard. The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.

  21. Project MUSE

    The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. Book. Liz W. Faber. 2020. Published by: University of Minnesota Press. View. summary. A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk. Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means ...

  22. Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.Since its creation, the franchise has expanded into various films, television series, video games, novels, and comic books, and it has become one of the most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises ...

  23. Star Trek (TV Series 1966-1969)

    Star Trek: Created by Gene Roddenberry. With Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols. In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.

  24. You Can Finally Stream All the Star Trek Movies in One Place

    In 2009, J.J. Abrams famously rebooted the Trek franchise with a new film simply titled Star Trek.While this film still creates a fair amount of controversy in hardcore Trekkie fandom circles, it ...

  25. Siri will show off its Star Wars knowledge if you say one iconic ...

    Siri will quote Star Wars. If you're a Star Wars fan, you will love this silly trick. All you have to do it open Siri on your iPhone, iPad or Mac and say: "Hey Siri, I am your father."

  26. Starfleet Academy: An Updated Cast List For The Latest Star Trek Series

    (Image credit: Paramount+) Robert Picardo. Robert Picardo became one of Star Trek: Voyager's most beloved characters as the EMH, and he had a wonderful return arc in Prodigy Season 2. Being a ...

  27. Marvel and 'Star Wars' take note. 'Star Trek' is now Hollywood's

    From 'Discovery' to "Strange New Worlds' via 'Lower Decks' and 'Prodigy', 'Star Trek' is leading the way. Shared universes go back way further than Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and co sitting down for ...