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NASA ground controllers were once shocked to hear a female voice from the space station, apparently interacting with them, which had an all-male crew. They had been pranked by an astronaut who used a recording of his wife.

Robin Williams' will prevents Disney from using his name, taped performances or voice recordings for 25 years after his death

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1. Shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.

2. Actress Mercedes McCambridge who dubbed the voice of the demon in The Exorcist swallowed raw eggs, chain smoked and drank whiskey to make her voice harsh. She was bound to a chair during recordings and requested no credit for the film.

3. The famous painting of a dog looking down a gramophone funnel, used as a logo by various companies, was inspired by the artists dog, Nipper. He inherited the animal from his dead brother, and noted that Nipper would look down a gramophone when a recording of his dead owner’s voice was played.

4. In 2015, Prince voiced his dislike of record labels saying "Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word – slavery." He concluded "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign." At the time he advocated seeing artists paid directly from streaming services, cutting out middlemen.

5. Chris Farley was Originally The Voice of Shrek and had recorded 85% of his lines before he passed away.

6. About "Loopers" Loopers are voice actors whose job is to record what people in the background of a scene could be saying. Their dialogue is never really heard at full volume — and it's mostly ad-libbed. They are the human ambient sounds in a movie.

7. The original voice for Siri was a woman named Susan Bennett. She was paid hourly to record nonsense phrases for a third party company, and only later learned that she had provided Apple with "all of the sounds of the English language", which they could then formed into any response.

8. The Rolling Stones were so impressed with the backup singer's voice in "gimme shelter" that you can hear them hooting in the background. They kept it in the studio recording as well.

9. Don LaFontaine, the movie trailer voice guy, offered to record an answering machine message for anyone that contacted him, if he had the time. He received so many requests, he had to stop offering.

10. No recordings existed of Alexander Graham Bell's voice until a wax on cardboard disc was discovered in 2013. In it we hear Bell say in a Scottish-tinged accent "Hear my voice. . . . Alexander. . Graham. . Bell"

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Popeye muttered under his breath because his animation was done before the voices were recorded and the voice actor ad-libbed stuff to help his dialog synch up

In 1942 a Finnish sound engineer secretly recorded 11 minutes of a candid conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim before being caught by the SS. It is the only known recording of Hitler's normal speaking voice. (11 min, english translation) - source

The cat Brando pets in The Godfather purred so loudly the actors' voices had to be re-recorded - source

The ‘Wilhelm Scream’, a distinctive stock audio scream, which has appeared in over 300 movies was voiced by Sheb Wooley who went onto record The Purple People Eater.

The Witcher 3 script is 450,000 words (roughly equal to 4 novels). It took 950 voice actors and 2.5 years to complete the voice recording - source

We tend to dislike the sound of our voice when we hear it in recordings because vibrations in our skulls make our voices sound richer and deeper than they are in reality

The smallest muscle in your body, found in the middle ear, dampens the sound of your own voice when you speak. Recordings of your voice sound odd because the stapedius muscle isn't functioning then.

The man who holds the Guinness record for the world's lowest voice can hit notes so low that only animals as big as elephants are able to hear them.

There is only one recording of Hitler's voice where he is not giving a speech - a private conversation between himself and Finnish leader Mannerheim recorded in secrecy by a sound engineer in 1942

In 1979, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.

When Tracy Morgan was unavailable to finish recording the full-length version of "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" for 30 Rock, Donald Glover stepped in and completed the verses in his impression of Morgan. Glover also voices the 'producer' on the track.