Majel Barrett, wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, was the voice of Starfleet's computer system. She died in 2008 but a digital version of her voice is being created "for things such as Siri".

March 6, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The Raspberry Pi can power all kinds of great projects, but building an interface to actually interact with those ...

Every time we yell out, “OK Google… navigate to Velvet Melvin’s” we feel like a Star Trek character. After all, you’ve never seen Captain Kirk (or Picard) using a keyboard. If you get that same ...

From the early days of the original series through 2009's reboot, there was one voice behind Star Trek's Library Computer Access/Retrieval System, better known as LCARS: Majel Barrett. Voicing LCARS, ...

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