Synthetic Synthesis

Her boss is way too low energy for that.

William Burns

Knowing May's luck she will get fired for failure to up sale during the rest of her shift.

Nicholas A Wagner

As someone going in for throat surgery this week with a non-zero chance of this happening... can confirm fear.

Marc Kevin Hall

Voice boxes with synthesised mouth movement, I assume.

Chris Crowther

By Sven

Julienne Ignace

Aqua?

Julienne Ignace

Wait wait wait - do robot's lips move to make sound? Or do they have smiles as words come out of their mouths? Is this like a speaker, or like vocal cords?

Nathaniel Tagg

Union Robotics can fix her, but the chassis is obsolete. They can swap in a voice box from a similar model, but it lisps.

Sleepy John

There’s always interpretive dance.

Sleepy John

Grandfather’s axe. Only replaced the head once and the handle twice.

Thisguy

So the current plan for getting May a new body is slowly having Faye and Bubbles replace all the parts of her old one, like that old thing with the broom?

Cody Renton

I totally blame Sven

Bagge

Robot frog?

Tudza

ah, the universe found an indignity it had yet not heaped on May

Bagge

LOL! The horror, the horror!

Erin Halfelven at BigCloset

She can communicate via PDFs going forward

Zach Elwyn

This is actually legit somewhat disturbing. This would be a hideous thing to have happen to you.

Charles Fitt

Perhaps we should try . . . the paperclip!

Alex Borders

I was hoping she'd curse so hard she melted somebody's earwax, not so hard she melted her voicebox. I demand to speak to a supervisor.

Thomas Halpin

In my head, some person with common sense (Nelson?) will suggest just using a Bluetooth speaker. So May's voice emanates from this speaker off to the side ... and May realizes it's actually BT mic as well, and uses it to spy on people.

Carl Fink

I don't know which I like better. May's ANGRY face, or the shape of her breaking-down dialogue box!

I mean, that's not even a lot of swearing, for May. And far less creative than her usual, which I take as further indication she's a bit overwhelmed by the situation.

Brooks Moses

Odd undress exception

Matt Grayson

Literally

Maybe munched on too many chips and is experiencing a Snack Overflow?

kaitou

I was going to say a watermelon seed. --N

Nobilis Reed (personal)

And if May learns Sign Language, she'll curse her fingers off...

BobC

heckin nothin goin right for may. hope she can get stuff sorted.

Astrid

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. And some have greatness fucking thrust onto them.

Todd Ellner

you could have not typed that...

Matt

around the world around the wooorld

Tamara Macadam

Poor frog :(

Kilonum

Is this a reference to Schlock Mercenary, or are they both referencing something else?

Chloë Salzenberg

Take your upvote and get out, dad.

Simon Green

We need a Go Fund May

Chris Heg

Can we just get Hannelore to hire May as a bodyguard plx

R L

probably a furball made of Sven's pubes

Andrew Wade

Complete and total ones!

Rob Vary

It wasn't a frog that was in her throat. It was a Sven.

Joel Bateman

Tai walks in, whips out her phone and records her, mixes it into her piece at the next rave in the library, a producer picks it up, gives Tai a big fat check which Tai then applies to pay for May's upgrade. May, er, "reallocates" some of the funds to upgrading her [bleep], so one of her legs keeps popping off but damn is Sven impressed...

Elf Sternberg

I'm gonna be honest, I totally expect this to be damage from filling her mouth with lube and/or letting Sven go to town (see #3304)

Nulgar

She's got a fuck caught in her throat, more likely

Devin Gates

Those politicians are obviously smeeeeeeee heeeeeees. They're smeeeeeee heeeeeees.

Simon Green

Swear TOO much?

Matt

They are probably on speed dial at this point

Tachpmg

My guess is the speaker is blowing

James Cooper

Your comment made me imagine her broken beeps transitioning into Robot Rock and every AI suddenly engaging in a synchronized dance-off and that's a genuinely great mental image.

Samantha Yeaman

Or she's just getting the electro- mechanical equivalent of getting choked up?

Michael Boettger

Somebody call Faye and Bubbles. STAT!

Joseph Bonnar

The morality filter for ex-cons kicking in.

Captain Button

Missed opportunity to say "a frag in her throat" sorry I'll see myself out

Kate!

It overclocked her vocal coding protocols.

Joseph Houk

I understand that things like joints can seize up, but a voice box (or speaker) shouldn't have this problem. Is May having a system breakdown? I hope not.

Michael Boettger

I imagine it's a special feature or something

Niskara

May sounds basically like my teenage years in theatre.

Max D S

She's now the penguin from toy story

Lord Crusade

Oh no! Poor May! I hope she’ll recover!

Andrea Andrew

oh, and here I was thinking she was starting to cry, but it's tech issues. Can a robot body cry? Does it have the capability?

Agnes

i imagine she suddenly sounds like a daft punk album a cat leapt onto

Hope