Current.com News loses robot voice!

+ the new voice-over sounds like it could be at home on a commercial radio station. Enough said, I think.

I liked the robotic voice. It was nice to see how it would fit both tragic and light-hearted news. Plus, it was a distinctive trait of the network.

Anyway, I don't mind the human voice.

Seriously, I like humans.

wohooo! (..says the robot)

good riddens robot voice - power to the people.

I think the robot voice is a bit forced in the same way the term "new age" insulted a lot of musicians back in the 80s....or whenever that was.

If Current is about viewer participation and interaction it makes little sense to remove the human and have a machine telling you what is happening in the world. Don't ya think?

Wohoo! Bye, bye robot voice!

I think the robot voice was democratising - it represents no one, therefore everyone. But I can see how people could view it as dehumanising.

As a concept, maybe it came across as a bit forced or gimmicky - but having a standard voice-over feels like a backward step.

What's the concept behind this latest change?

It's less cold and futureistic, less like an unbothered machine's talking to you. Mind you, just watched it, and they seem to have swapped voices, the woman tells the stories, and in a clash the robot keeps popping up, or she talks after the robot. Should be one or the other, I vote the woman, love her Austrailian accent! (I talk like that too, but still!)

Hopefully the human voice will pronounce my crappy L337speak name I chose entirely too late at night!

I love the new voice!!

too bad we still have the robot one...

Don't kill off the Macintalk voice! It has a good neutral tone when reading articles, it's not opinionated about the content that it's reading.

I prefer the real voice!