Human AI Voice Actor for Apps, Devices, GPS, Transportation Systems, & Sci-Fi Computers

Just a few years ago, Siri was the only recognizable AI assistant voice over that folks were using. Today, the marketplace has exploded with options for all different kinds of AI Assistant Voice Overs. You may not realize this, but those AI Assistants all started with the same thing: a human voice actor. While the technology has changed, and now we have Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Copilot, and hundreds more, the specific voiceover performance for an AI assistant is consistent across platforms.

As a talented human voice actor, Maria Pendolino can emulate the style of these AI Assistants for your project. And, Maria is not merely an “AI voice actor”. She is an established working professional voice actor with expertise across multiple genres. With nearly three decades of experience in the entertainment industry, Maria has worked in theatre, television, film, and voiceover. She’s a trusted pro who brings authenticity and reliability to all of her work. She’s also on the executive board of the National Association of Voice Actors.

you’ve got a family interacting with their AI assistant for a commercial, or you want to have your lead character speak to an AI assistant in a film. In order to ensure artistic integrity, and copyright viability, chances are: you want to hire a human voice actor for your AI assistant voice over. 

Maria can match the exact tone, pace, pitch, and delivery that you want for your commercial, film, or corporate video. She’ll create a virtual assistant voice that is unique and special for your project, and your project only.

And, if you’re casting human voice actors for AI digital assistants that you are creating, Maria’s voice resonates as friendly, approachable, warm, and conversational – exactly the qualities that customers look for when they are choosing which AI assistants to use and interact with.

Voice User Interface (VUI) Voice Actor

If you’re creating onboarding experiences or interactive responses, chances are you’re looking for a conversational and natural voice performance. That comes with human performance experience from a talented, award-winning actor like Maria Pendolino.

As you’re planning your conversational flows, designing the user guidance, and planning the system prompts, collaborating with a talented voice over actor like Maria gives you a lot of options to ensure that your model is not only custom, but successful.

Who Hires an AI Voice Actor Like Maria?

When it comes to selecting a voice performer to create an AI or synthetic voice, Maria hears from all types of technology professionals, including:

• technology companies
• software developers and app creators
• UI and UX teams
• metropolitan transit agencies
• transportation companies and airports
• manufacturers of smart devices
• automotive technology companies
• healthcare communications companies
• pharmaceutical companies
• enterprise software developers

The marketplace has exploded with conversational technology voice projects. But, that’s not the only place we are seeing the use of human voice performances in synthetic voice overs expand. We’re also seeing a large uptick in healthcare AI voice applications, and even in political ads. Although, the latter is challenging due to certain states’ disclosure law requirements. Of course, the business world uses voice actors in corporate training and digital assistant voice work.

One landscape with synthetic and text-to-speech voices have prevalent for a long time has been telephony and interactive voice response (IVR).

One of the most frequently used digital voices in the marketplace, is GPS and Navigation voices.

Whether you’re using Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, or an external GPS device, having the directions read aloud to you so that you can keep your eyes on the road is critical. You need a virtual assistant voice specifically for navigation.

Maria Pendolino’s voice is perfect for GPS and Navigation systems. She offers clear, credible, friendly, and warm instructions to help people find their way easily and safely. Her experience as an e-learning and educational voice actor give her a foundation of experience to help tell people where to go.

We frequently hear a GPS and navigation voice in radio and television commercials, or in TV shows and films. If you need a unique and special GPS and navigation voiceover – consider Maria Pendolino.

We’ve got smart devices all over our house. Whether it’s our smart refrigerator, our smart thermostat, our smart assistant, or smart TV – we’ve all equipped our modern homes with devices that help make our lives easier. And, many of them speak to us alerting us of low levels, power status, battery status, and more. Speaking devices also provide an important lifeline for people with disabilities who may not be able to interact with systems like touch screens or buttons. So, voice over for smart devices is a key accessibility and convenience tool.

If you want to hire a voice actor for a smart device, Maria’s friendly, warm, and conversational delivery is perfect for smart devices like:

• Smart Refrigerators
• Smart Thermostats and HVAC Systems
• Smart Connected Home Devices
• Smart Assistants and Speakers
• Smart Home Technology
• Smart Alarm and Protection
• Smart Fire Prevention Devices
• Smart Televisions and Sound Bars

If you’re planning to feature a smart device in your commercial, film, documentary, or corporate instructional video, you can hire Maria to be the virtual assistant voice actor of these smart devices. By hiring a human voice actor, you retain ultimate creative control over the delivery, pace, speed, and inflection. This ensures that your project comes out exactly as you intend, and you don’t have to rely on lower quality audio for your end product. Maria records all smart device voice over in her dedicated broadcast-quality voiceover studio.

Stand clear of the closing doors! Mind the gap! The voice overs for transportation systems are voices that we hear and interact with every day. Whether it’s the New York City subway system, the London Underground, or the overhead voices in airports reminding you to watch your bags, these omnipresent voices assist us in getting where we need to go.

If you’re looking for a transportation announcement voice: Maria Pendolino is an excellent choice.

Known for her kind, friendly, authoritative, and measured delivery, Maria can ensure that all of your passengers will be able to get where they need to go. Her transit announcement voice over style provides a conversational and credible presence that travelers will immediately recognize as trustworthy and confident.

And if you need a PA voice for a subway, train, or bus system, you’ve definitely come to the right place. Maria can perform all different styles that will ultimately lead to your recordings being the best they can be.

Perhaps you have kiosks in your transit hubs that require a voice component. Voice over for kiosks is an important accessibility tool for disabled persons, including those who have limited sight or are legally blind. This allows passengers to purchase the correct tickets and fares for their transit journey. Maria’s friendly, easygoing, and trustworthy voice over delivery can ensure they understand exactly which tickets to purchase. A female voice over for a kiosk is a great choice.

Where Do You Hear and Interact with Transportation Voice Overs?

Passengers hear transit announcements all the time. They include:

• train station PA announcements
• subway alerts, including late and cancelled trains
• station announcements
• transit systems
• airport announcements, including TSA and safety
• passenger information systems

Captain Sisko: “Computer: Any life signs detected?”

Beep…Beep.

Computer: “Three life signs detected.”

Captain Sisko: “Species?”

Computer: “Vulcan.”

If you recognize that style of phrase, chances are: you’ve watched Star Trek! And, that means you’re probably really familiar with the synthetic-style human voice over that makes up these electronic voice deliveries.

One of the fun features of science fiction movies and television shows is watching the on-screen characters interact with their computers and the operating system voice. On Star Trek, Majel Barrett (coincidentally, creator Gene Roddenberry’s wife) became synonymous with the female sci-fi computer voice. While she played memorable on-screen roles in the series and movies, her most memorable performances were as the speaking computer voice in series like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The computer voice on sci-fi shows is often slightly distant and detached, but not particularly unfriendly. It’s a utilitarian role and device, meant to convey important information quickly, credibly, and confidently. In later series, like Star Trek: Discovery, the Star Trek computer voice became more conversational, more personal, and even had a name: Zora.

As a talented voice actor, and a certified Star Trek fan and nerd, Maria Pendolino loves performing the role of a sci-fi computer voice. Whether you are looking for that neutral, crisp delivery, or something with more character and spice, Maria can bring your sci-fi computer voice over to life.

If you’re producing a video game or a science fiction television series or film, Maria Pendolino would be a great choice as a female computer voice over.

Synthetic voices, AI voices, voice UI, and operating system voices have come a long way. We no longer have detached and robotic voices that sound crunchy and electronic. Now, we have conversational AI voices.

If you want to hire a female voice actor for a conversational AI voice, you may want to consider award-winning voice actor, Maria Pendolino.

Whether you’re developing a bespoke voice UI for a company, or you’re creating a synthetic-style conversational human voice for a commercial, television show, documentary, or film, Maria Pendolino possesses the required deliveries you need to make the voice shine.

Maria is known for her conversational voice with hints of wry, dry, sass, and sarcasm. It’s these additional attributes that make her voice credible, friendly, approachable, and believable. You can trust her voice, regardless of the text that it is delivering.

As a working professional across many voiceover genres, Maria does not place her voice in general voice banks. Instead, she only collaborates one-on-one with technology professionals who are developing custom synthetic voice models for a specific use case and license.

A friendly voice performance can humanize technology interactions, giving customers a comfortable feeling when interacting with a digital voice performer. This includes interacting with voice assistants, conversational interfaces, vocal companions, and applications that are voice-enabled.

Conversational AI requires a natural human rhythm. That only comes from working with a talent voice over performer who can deliver a true conversational voice performance.

If you’re building an AI voice model, you need consistency. You need a voice actor who will sound the same day in and day out and will be recording from the same studio environment. As a full-time working voice over professional, Maria works from the same studio every day and takes meticulous care of her vocal instrument so that she can perform the same way every day. Maria’s nearly two-decade long career allows her to maintain consistency in:

• Tone
• Pace
• Rhythm
• Intent
• Character
• Pronunciation

It’s this commitment to excellence that will ultimately lead to customer satisfaction, user adoption, and AI voice user experience. 

At the end of the day, many of the conversational AI voice models in use today interact with users as a guide. That includes industries like:

• Banking
• Healthcare
• Home
• Navigation
• Technology
• Education

Credibility, trustworthiness, and clarity are paramount. Friendliness, warmth, and diction add to the overall value of choosing a trained voice actor for the job.

AI Voice Actor Services

As a human voice actor, Maria can provide voice styles that emulate and mimic AI and synthetic voices. She can also help you create ethical, custom AI voice overs for your product or service. Her many styles and services include:

• Conversational AI
• AI assistants
• Virtual assistants
• Smart speakers
• Apps
• GPS and navigation systems
• Transportation and transit overhead announcements
• Kiosks in public space and museums
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems
• Voice-enabled technology and accessibility tools
• Digital experiences, including virtual reality (VR)

Maria Pendolino is an award-winning voice actor whose conversational voice resonates strongly with Millennials and Gen Z. With a youthful confidence and trustworthy tone, she is the perfect voice to bring your AI synthetic-style voice to life. If you need a voice over for an AI assistant, a smart device, a GPS system, a transit announcement, a kiosk, a voice UI, or a sci-fi computer – Maria is the best choice.

If you’re asking yourself: “Can this voice actor maintain their performance across 2,000 unique prompts?” With Maria’s deep experience in broadcast television and radio performances, sports voice over, corporate communications and narration, healthcare communication, e-learning and educational narration, and telephony, she is tried and tested.

Reach out for an audition or a quote today. You can also e-mail Maria directly to discuss your project at maria@voicebymaria.com.

What is a human AI voice actor?

A human AI voice actor is a professional human performer that records sound files in the style of an artificial intelligence (AI) synthetic voice. For instance, if you are filming a television show and want to have one of your characters interact with an AI voice, you might want to hire an actual human voice actor to perform the role you so you can direct their tone, pace, and cadence explicitly for your production. It also ensures that you don’t violate any copyright or ownership terms within your produced work.

Can an AI assistant use a human voice actor?

Actually all AI assistants use human voices for their creation. It’s important to do this ethically by paying a voice actor for their labor in recording the specific prompts required for the engine, as well as licensing the voice actor’s voice to be used commercially in the marketplace.

What’s the difference between an AI voice actor and text-to-speech?

Text-To-Speech (TTS) is a type of technology that changes the written word into spoken audio. A voice actor records a series of words and phrases – that definitely sound weird when recording – and then those little bits and pieces get re-assembled based on the text prompt.

An AI or synthetic voice is a different subset of TTS. AI and synthetic voices use different forms of technology to instead generate realistic human-like speech which attempts to contain nuance, emotion, and expression. Earlier forms of TTS are much more generic, robotic, and even monotone. TTS technology creates phrases by stitching together recorded words and sounds, whereas AI or synthetic/cloned voices rely on datasets to actually create speech by “learning”, which is why they are called Large Language Models (LLM).

Who hires conversational AI voice actors?

Right now a lot of different use cases exist for conversational AI voice actors including technology, enterprise, finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, e-learning, and more, just to name a few.

Can a voice actor record prompts for AI training and conversational systems?

Yes, provided that they are compensated fairly and ethically for the work and they are clear on how their voices are going to be used in the marketplace. The National Association of Voice Actors advocates for the three Cs:

• Consent
• Control
• Compensation

What industries use AI voice actors?

Right now, it’s easy to say that all industries have needs for AI voice actors. Whether they are creating a custom model to communicate with customers or employees, or developing voices for apps or operating systems, or even Hollywood creating a synthetic-sounding voice for a sci-fi television show, human AI voice actors are working everywhere!

Can you give me a list of AI Voice Actor Services?

• Conversational AI Voice
• Virtual Assistant Voice
• Smart Device Voice
• GPS Voice
• Navigation System Voice
• Transportation Announcement Voice
• Subway Announcement Voice
• Train Announcement Voice
• Airport Announcement Voice
• Voice User Interface (VUI) Voice
• App Voice
• Kiosk Voice
• System Voice
• Sci-Fi Computer Voice