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Digital voice is pretty bad. I figured I’d give it shot on something nonfiction but ended up returning the book. Initially it seemed ok. But every sentence had the same exact cadence, inflections, so it resonated more like a repetitive noise or jingle that needed to stop.
I’m trying to conceive of Commander Shepard or Varric from DA2 with digital voice instead of actors at the helm. The Outsider or Dowd. Minsc even, that’s a different type of repetition.
I gave up on a DuoLingo course because they started using AI voices. I was doing the course during the switch and it was jarring. Even I could tell the accents and pronunciation were just wrong half the time.
I had taken like a month long break when it happened and the decline in quality was blatant.
This is why I can't listen to computer generated voices for more than a few seconds, the cadence just isn't right, and there's no variation in the voice.
You haven't heard Google NotebookLM, then; run any article through that to summarize it podcast-style with a male and female voice and be amazed. I had to ask if they were real myself; voices have come so far.
I'm not supporting AI but just saying that it has vastly improved cadence, inflection, tone, etc.