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WCDT strips 3756-3760 (4th June to 8th June 2018)
Mr_Rose:
Yep. But a tongue and vocal cords are the best way to simulate human speech.
HughYeman:
Heh. I didn't even want to get into this aspect, because my post was long-winded enough. But yeah, those last two posts represent my thoughts. Clearly chassis designers put a lot of effort into facial verisimilitude, which includes a moving jaw. And if you're going to have a moving jaw, then do you just go ahead and do a tongue, vocal cords, etc.?
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: HughYeman on 08 Jun 2018, 11:52 ---Heh. I didn't even want to get into this aspect, because my post was long-winded enough. But yeah, those last two posts represent my thoughts. Clearly chassis designers put a lot of effort into facial verisimilitude, which includes a moving jaw. And if you're going to have a moving jaw, then do you just go ahead and do a tongue, vocal cords, etc.?
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You have all posed very valid questions that I have also wondered myself.
While I know it's very unlikely considering the early chassis version that Winslow tried back in the day, I have come to think of the AIs in QC as slightly less progressed versions of the androids in the HBO show 'Westworld'.
For anyone who hasn't seen that show, basically androids in that show started out as mostly mechanical inner workings but always with highly sophisticated and near-perfect outside appearance/feel (including tongue/lips and other aspects), and later on are fabricated completely(I think) out of organic material pretty much indistinguishable from humans in every single way.
So, in the QC universe, I personally prefer to imagine the androids as having mechanical/electrical inner workings, but having outside feel/appearance (including lips/tongue/hair) etc. more-or-less indistinguishable from humans. While I understand that there may be question marks as to why they would be developed that way, it kind of makes sense to foster widespread acceptance by the non-android population.
Is it cold in here?:
>acceptance
I wonder how many are being designed by people like Ambassador Momo to be bridges between inorganic and organic life forms.
specter177:
--- Quote from: HughYeman on 08 Jun 2018, 11:52 ---Heh. I didn't even want to get into this aspect, because my post was long-winded enough. But yeah, those last two posts represent my thoughts. Clearly chassis designers put a lot of effort into facial verisimilitude, which includes a moving jaw. And if you're going to have a moving jaw, then do you just go ahead and do a tongue, vocal cords, etc.?
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I'd guess the moving mouth thing is more to keep them away from being too creepy looking. Human looking robots today even have moving mouths, despite using speakers, even if they're not quite as refined. Air over vocal chords seems like WAY more complexity than needed, especially since robots still sound, well, robotic-ish, based on how Jeph draws the text bubbles.
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