Synthesized voices are getting better.
Will they ever be good enough to replace humans?
‘Better listen to this.
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This VO Issue Won’t Go Away
October of last year, I launched into a series of blogs about synthetic voices. It got a lot of responses, and landed on John Florian's VoiceOverXtra site, too. The idea that a machine can even BEGIN to affect the subtle nuances of a human voice for interpreting copy is an outrage to many. But...
‘Touched a (Synthetic?) Nerve!
As artificial intelligence algorithms improve, my guess is we’ll hear synthetic voices that rise to the level of chess-playing software in their ability to innovate, learn, and approximate human nuances.