Here's something I hope you guys can help me with. In the new novel I got planned, I had the idea that one of the characters could speak through a voice synthesizer (I don't know if that's the correct term for it, what I mean is the thing that Stephen Hawkings uses to speak). I'm wondering, when the character talks, is there a special way I should write it to demonstrate his lack of emotion and metallica voice. I was thinking maybe I should write it disjointed in some way to represent the voice synthesizer. Example,

Hello-my-name-is-Arnold.

Or something like that. I dunno if I should try and write it in some unique way or just have a brief description that he talks through a synthesiser and that would be enough. Obviously I want to make sure it's readable, I just think it might be cool to write his dialogue in a different way to make him different to the other characters.

Any advice?

Personally - unless the person in question is a very minor charcater - I'd say don't do anything too fiddly or it will be messy and distracting to read. Its the same as with accents - it tends to become wearing if eet ees all written like zees just because the person is French (or whatever). Maybe simple italicss will be enough to remind the reader of the synthesised voice?

Rosy

What Rosy! said.
I think it would annoy me. If you want to differentiate, how about italics.
Then again, maybe the words themselves will be enough. There won't be any slang for example, or 'you know's'. It will be formal won't it? And precise. You don't hear SH saying, 'See, the thing is, mate, I aint messing. Know what I mean?'
HB x

Ooh, I dunno. Might sound funny if I made the character sound like Catherine Tate. That would be quite funny:

Am-I-bothered? Look-at-my-face-am-I-bothered? Face. Bothered. Face. I-ain't-bothered.

Actually, I take it back. That WOULD sound even more annoying! lol

Seriously, thanks for the advice. Thinking about it, I'd probably spend at least a whole day just trying to write the characters dialogue if I did it that way. So not really worth my time doing it.