What Do Robots Sound Like?

20 year veteran voice designer, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford etcInterviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome._______Show notes:This month's guest is Adam Elman, a veteran voice designer with 20 years experience working on Amazon Alexa, Ford Sync, Xbox and more.Adam's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vuiadamConversation design list, curated by Adam - https://medium.com/@aelman/list/conversation-design-d03ad47d84b8Adam's "Favourite Sound" example I used was the trumpet stem from: "Carousel Ride" by Rubblebucket ***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

Principal Conversation Design | Amazon Lab 126, Emerging Products and Consumer Robotics - Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome._______Show notes:This month's guest is Chelsea Titus, Principal Conversation Design at Amazon Lab 126 - Emerging Products and Consumer RoboticsChelsea's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-titus-catExtra linksHow button boards are changing human-canine communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnVSJ8V4wk Immanuel Kant quote: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

Amazon Device Design Group - UX Sound Designer - Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome._______Show notes:This month's guest, Vasundhara Gupta, is a Senior UX Sound Designer at the Amazon Device Design Group.N.B. One editorial note: we discuss the delicate art of tiny sounds that is the domain of the UX designer. We mention 3m/s sound (three one thousandths of a second), but realistically we should've been speaking in multiplications of 10, to quote Vasu; "3ms is not a number I play with haha. It’s more like 30!"Vasu's website - https://www.vasundharagupta.com/Extra linksLata Mangeshkar (legendary Bollywood female lead playback singer) https://tidal.com/artist/30815Audio UX Sonic branding https://www.auxnyc.com/aboutArticle about San Francisco Int'l Airport's quiet spaces project: https://www.airport-technology.com/features/san-francisco-quiet-airport/***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

Associate Professor - HRI - Bristol Robotics Lab - Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com I welcome any comments or guest suggestions._______Show notes:This month's guest, Paul Bremner, is Associate Professor in Human-Robot Interaction at Bristol Robotics LaboratoryPaul's publications - https://scholar.google.fr/Extra linksBristol Robotics Lab - https://www.bristolroboticslab.com/Core-StaffSellafield UK Nuclear site - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SellafieldParo seal robot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJq5PQZHU-IGeminoid realistic clone robot - https://robotsguide.com/robots/geminoidhi1***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

Human Robot Interview - Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests._______Show notes:This month's episode was experimental. With the help of my friend Matt I attempted something I've been thinking about for a while. A human robot interaction - with ChatGPT as the robot.Extra links:Andrej Karpathy explains the workings of Large Language Models (1hr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

Composer and sound designer for games - Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests._______Show notes:This month's guest, Kenny Young, is a 9x academy nominated composer and sound designer for games (he got one more since I recorded the intro!!)Kenny's website - https://www.audbod.com/Kenny on socials: bsky - https://bsky.app/profile/kcmyoung.bsky.social Twitter - https://x.com/kcmyoungExtra linksAURA at the sphere - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRo2qLMcUw"Enshittification" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnshittificationAstrobot game trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unYFdcEjV9k***SPECIAL THANKS***Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/