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If this is just the beginning, where will it end? Will we all have artificial voice boxes installed so that we all speak like Stephen Fry? Will every toaster, every fridge be speaking to us as Stephen Fry? Will there be no place on earth to escape his dulcet timbre?

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There are worse fates. Our appliances could sound like Brian Blessed.

Gilbert Gottfried

OMG! 'The Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf' with Brian Blessed's Voice!!

Obviously we need a new Ask Jeeves with Fry’s AI rendered voice. Maybe what we ask of Jeeves can be played back in Hugh Laurie’s Wooster persona.

Although I’d really want Fink-Nottle answering questions about newts, and Madeline Basset about gnomes and stars.

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