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My wife and I are Star Trek fans, and I know that Majel Barret Roddenberry (Nurse Chappel, Lwaxana Troi, wife of Gene Roddenberry) recorded material necessary to allow Star Trek and others to continue to use her voice for the franchise and other applications.

Has anyone found a good TTS source that has her voice and, hopefully, some of the specific diction she used on Star Trek as the computer voice? It's a bit more precise/stacatto than her natural voice.

In researching this I found a neat piece of trivia on this site: https://movieweb.com/rod-roddenberry-majel-barrett-roddenberry-computer-voice/

Google and Apple were working on a voice-controlled personal assistant that would be based on Barrett-Roddenberry's voice. In a recent Geek Girl Authority interview, [Rod] Roddenberry said,

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