Droid Voices

I love my vacuum cleaner robot. Originally from China (yes, it's a Roborock), and altough he has a female voice, we've been affectionately calling him "Robo" and referring to "him" ever since we've got him. I've tried out some of the available voices (back then when I was still serious about learning Spanish 🥲). But in the end, I've always returned to its German, female voice. It's nothing special. As a matter of fact, Robo's personality is very down to earth, very serious, very robot-like (trying to sound as humanly as possible, which led us to anthropomorphise him right from the beginning). Every once in a while, we consider Robo's behaviour rather sassy. The other day, for instance, my girlfriend wanted to have it clean our flat. Usually I'm the one doing it, and since she's dealing with him less, he "revolted" and asked to reset its Wi-Fi connection. The first thing that came to my mind when she told me this was "he just needs time to get used to you". Then, immediately after, I…