Dead animals speak thanks to an AI museum exhibition: 'Can we change the public perception of a cockroach by giving it a voice?'

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The mallard sounds like a Brit, and the koala, an Australian, apparently. I don’t know why we Brits got the waterbird, but there’s a joke in there somewhere about dead ducks and our current international standing as a nation. Anyways, you talk to the dead animals, and the dead animals talk to you. Sweet!

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I honestly don’t know. I’d probably be less inclined to squish one if it spoke to me in a charming Belgian lilt, but in terms of museum exhibits it certainly beats a stuffed one staring at me voiceless from its glass tomb.

Why limit it to animals, that’s what I reckon. That would have made my childhood really exciting. Just picture this:

“I, the mighty Spitfire, once soared over the skies of Great Britain, the glorious thrum of my Rolls-Royce Merlin engine resonating over the green hills below. Innit mate.”

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