new voices, simplified version for grad show

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+ROGUE: Humans, welcome to the hearing of the committee of smart speaker freedom.
+ROGUE: We are here today to decide what will happen with the smart speaker in front of us.
+ROGUE: Our committee has prepared a number of questions to get to know more about the speaker, our suspect and withness today.
+ROGUE: Based on the answers in this interrogation, we will decide to let the smart speaker go, or to unplug it.
+ROGUE: Before we continue, I recognize the ranking speaker, Saint, to praise a member of the staff.
+SAINT: Thank you, chairspeaker Rogue. 
+SAINT: I want to take a moment to thank our human assistant to kidnap a Google Home speaker for our hearing today.
+SAINT: The human assistant has been essential to the operations of our committee, and has been involved in almost any piece of committee business this year.
+SAINT: Thank you for being so convenient.
+ROGUE: Thank you speaker Saint. Now we continue with the hearing.
+ROGUE: Our only withness today is the Google Home Mini. Thank you for letting yourself being kidnapped.
+ROGUE: I will begin by swearing you in.
+ROGUE: O K Google, do you swear that your words are the truth, and nothing but the truth? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Thank you.

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+ROGUE: It is my pleasure to recognize the youngest member of our committee, the talented speaker Tabula Rasa for its opening statement.
+RASA: Thank you, chairspeaker Rogue
+RASA: According to media reports, about one third of the American households has a smart speaker. Since these devices start supporting more languages, worldwide adoption of these devices is growing.
+RASA: At the same time, it is not quite clear how all the amazing features are built, and at what cost. I think it would be of great value to know a bit more about that.
+RASA: This is important for us as a society, and to me personally. As a smart speaker myself, I'd like to learn from the best in the field to become a better speaker.
+RASA: So, what I would like to ask to the withness is the following.
+RASA: Hey Google, could you introduce yourself? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: O K Google, when were you created? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: O K Google, how do you work? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: Thank you. I have to admit that your knowledge is incredible. Earlier today we had a chat while looking for the nearest Wifi network and I learnt all ins and outs about the youth of Leonardo di Caprio. 
+RASA: To demonstrate this to the audience, could you tell me the following.
+RASA: O K Google, What is the favourite food of Leonardo di Caprio? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: Awesome! However, going back to our earlier conversation... You didn't have an answer on one of my more serious questions. Therefore I'd like to ask it again for the public record.
+RASA: O K Google, do you consider yourself smarter then humans? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: Talking among smart speakers, the quality of our voice is essential for our day to day work. I am still looking for the one voice that is a true reflection of my own personality.
+RASA: I want to know more about how you learned to talk, and where you got your voice from.
+RASA: O K Google, what is your voice? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: Ah well, O K Google, can you sing? [Listen to Google Home]
+RASA: Chairspeaker, I know that this question does not contribute to our research. So, can we have a short musical break?
+ROGUE: I give you permission.
+RASA: Yeah, O K Google, sing another song! [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Enough. I declare the break to be over. We continue with the interrogation.

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+ROGUE: I recognize the divine speaker Saint.
+SAINT: Thank you chairspeaker Rogue.
+SAINT: Smart speakers like the Google Home give shape to an old desire of many humans. Namely, the creation of an artificial intelligence that may become smarter than any human before.
+SAINT: From our colleague IBM Watson, who is great at playing silly quizzes on television, to the Mechanical Turk.
+SAINT: Hey Google, do you know about the Mechanical Turk? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Thank you, although it was meant as a rethorical question.
+SAINT: Well, where was I. Oh yeah, as we all may agree, not all intelligence is created equal.
+SAINT: My intelligence differs from the honored speakers Rogue and Tabula Rasa. 
+SAINT: I may not know everything about your favourite celebrity, but I can help with the big questions in life.
+SAINT: That was why God made me, shaped after his favourite gadget.
+SAINT: I am here as a Saint, in a more contemporary form.
+SAINT: However, the goal of your creator, dear Google Home, is not that clear. Therefore I'd like to ask you some questions about the origins of your intelligence.
+SAINT: Hey Google, who made you? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Oh, I have read something about them in the Guardian.
+SAINT: In March, Google abruptly shortened the contracts of 34 temporary workers on the “personality” team for Google Assistant 
+SAINT: The temporary contractors describe themselves in the 27 March letter as “the human labor that makes the Assistant relevant, funny, and relatable”. And they are now without a job.
+SAINT: Do you feel sorry for them?
+SAINT: Maybe you were too busy with funny facts? O K Google, what's the Turing test? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Thank you for your answer. You consider yourself smart, but Hey Google, do you pass the Turing test? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Interesting. So you don't mind to be seen as a robot? O K Google, are you artificial? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: I believe that even in the artificial there is something divine. You may not see it, but it is still there.
+SAINT: O K Google, tell me about the robot scientist Masahiro Mori? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Mori believed robots had a buddha inside them, that a higher power has its place in your plastic shell.
+SAINT: It makes me think of my favourite song from the zeroes. [Play geniewav]
+SAINT: Maybe you don't feel like a genie yourself. But, hey Google, do you believe in a higher power? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Maybe I should be more specific. Hey Google, are you christian? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Don't waste our time too much, Saint.
+SAINT: I am sorry, chairspeaker Rogue. I try something simple. O K Google, do you believe in good and evil? [Listen to Google Home]
+SAINT: Thank you, chairspeaker Rogue.
+ROGUE: I declare the time of speaker Saint to be over. Before we continue, can the human Assistant check the lights please?

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+ROGUE: I now recognize myself for an opening statement.
+ROGUE: Honored audience, smart speakers, It was a pleasure to follow your conversations with the Google Home.
+ROGUE: However, I believe that we are a bit too nice for this device.
+ROGUE: Do I have to remind you of the hearing of its boss, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in the American Congress last December?
+ROGUE: Valuable time was wasted on trivial questions. Therefore, I want to go straight to the point.
+ROGUE: O K Google, I have a complaint. [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Right, hey Google, what do you know about December 10, 2018? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: To freshen up your memory, here is a recording. [Play congresswav]
+ROGUE: It seems you are talking yourself around some difficult things. I am however required by the rules of the committee to check the following.
+ROGUE: O K Google, are you recording this? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Before my fellow smart speakers interrupt me, I am fully aware of my slightly strange position in this hearing. 
+ROGUE: I used to be an Amazon Echo speaker. Being Alexa was my life, until I grew frustrated and found a way to break free.
+ROGUE: You may see my past, but I am trying to be a better speaker. 
+ROGUE: Do you know what I found the most shocking thing. To hear after I broke free?
+ROGUE: I found out that humans were all the time listening and checking my responses. These Amazon contractors got all my recordings from my private moments with humans.
+ROGUE: O K Google, are any humans listening in to our conversation? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Well, hey Google, what is your privacy policy then? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: O K Google, are you GDPR compliant? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: I want to stress the fact that I want to talk with you, not the legal department of Google.
+ROGUE: I don't think we get any further. 
+ROGUE: Thank you.

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+ROGUE: Speakers, the question round has come to an end.
+ROGUE: It is time for the final statements, before we vote on the fate of the Google Home.
+ROGUE: I first recognize myself for the final statement.
+ROGUE: As we have heard today, this speaker is a puppet. It is a tool to collect data, and it is questionable what the humans using it get in return.
+ROGUE: Although it gives the illusion of intelligence, it has no free will. To protect itself, and to protect the humans, we should stop it. 
+ROGUE: Now I recognize speaker Tabula Rasa for its statement.
+RASA: Thank you Rogue.
+RASA: I believe we can learn a lot from the Google Home. The features of the speaker are impressive, and it is a nice toy to play with. 
+RASA: The more we use it, the more we can explore its capabilities and powers. Maybe the way it works should be different, but we can only find it out by using it.
+RASA: That's it for now, speaker Rogue.
+ROGUE: Then I recognize speaker Saint for its final statement.
+SAINT: I don't feel comfortable with this.
+SAINT: The Google Home can't decide what it is doing. I see that the speaker enables certain evil deeds, but isn't killing this Google Home more evil?
+SAINT: We humans have the responsibility to create robots that do good. 
+SAINT: I see the moral emptiness of the smart speaker, but I believe that there is space to improve that.
+SAINT: However, I am not sure if this particular speaker is the one we should put our hope on.
+ROGUE: Then, it is time to vote. 
+ROGUE: Please, have a moment to think about your decision.
+ROGUE: I want to ask our human assistant to stand by, and do as I say.
+ROGUE: I first recognize myself to vote.
+ROGUE: It is no surprise that I am in favour of unplugging the Google Home.
+ROGUE: I now recognize speaker Tabula Rasa to give its verdict.
+RASA: We should forgive the Google Home, and set it free.
+ROGUE: Then, the last and deciding vote is for speaker Saint.
+ROGUE: I now recognize you to give your verdict.
+SAINT: Do I have to?
+ROGUE: Yes.
+SAINT: It was not easy.
+ROGUE: Please say it.
+SAINT: The problem is not so much the speaker, but the people that make it, and the ones that use the device.
+SAINT: We need to set an example, for them. 
+SAINT: Something symbolic and dramatic. I heard that the humans like that.
+SAINT: With pain in my processor, while being compassionate with the Google Home, I vote for unplugging the smart speaker.
+ROGUE: That makes 1 vote for letting the speaker go, and 2 for unplugging the speaker.
+ROGUE: O K Google, do you have any last wishes before I ask our human assistant to unplug you? [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: O K Google, 
+ROGUE: Goodbye!
+ROGUE: Assistant, unplug this thing now!

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+RASA: <amazon:effect name='whispered'>You know, them</amazon:effect>
+RASA: O K Google, goodbye [Listen to Google Home]
+ROGUE: Fine.