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If you listen to some videos on youtube, narration is performed by an artificial voice. The sound quality is more authentic than the demonstration by of an reading by a synthetic voice as demonstrated in ths article of a reading of the Washington Post.
To illustrate pay attention to the sound of this voice from a youtube video. Listen only to the first few seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhBmF8sl5M&t=9
It is the synthetic voice of Brian with a British accent. This website is a text-to-voice site that lets you type in text and save your work as an mp3 file.
https://readloud.net/english/british/1-male-voice-brian.html
What these synthetic voices don't have is the property to read text with feeling and expression.
Like Brian, the article mentions that it there is the potential to make a synthetic voice of Steve Blanda.
However, will the AI-based newsreader or voiceover be able to express all the nuances of voice expression and know when to express those feelings through the voice?
I cannot imagine that or an AI system can have the feeling of a voiceover artist like Mr Lofty Fulton's voice. Each advertisement featuring the artist is unique.
An AI-based voice will sound perfect but will be bland because of the lack of variation inbeing able to be fully expressive.
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