The thing these voices always miss is context. We need about 700 variations of every textual sentence that all depend on the mood or goal of the conversation a

The thing these voices always miss is context. We need about 700 variations of every textual sentence that all depend on the mood or goal of the conversation and modulate pitch, volume, speed, word choice, etc. appropriately. This experiment does cover the "generic computer voice" role quite well, but customers don't want that on e.g. their website. I would want a "I'm a professional designer" voice. So there will always be markets for more appropriate voices [*]. But this one does sound very nice at what it does. The same will happen with robots, btw. Once we get a generic humanoid robot that can do everything, we will still seek aesthetic variations and employ remote body actors.