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If they wanted an actual attractive voice they wouldn't use Booties-Walking-on-Ground-Glass-and-Getting-Shredded-at-Every-Step Johannson. They would use a great voice, a relevant voice, a voice that everyone on Earth recognizes, a voice that matters.

The original TV show Star Trek computer.

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Majel Barrett was married to Gene Roddenberry, and, sadly, died 15 years ago. She played several roles on Star Trek, including the computer voice, Nurse Chapel and a major character in the pilot that was essentially replaced by Spock.

According to many sources, Amazon's Alexa was designed to sound like her and the Alexa project's internal name was Majel.

Johansson did a nice job in Her, but I thought for sure that she was trying to sound like Barrett. Perhaps the Roddenberry estate could sue her, since Hollywood seems to be all about the lawsuit these days, now that fewer people are watching their movies.

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