The answer to the question: no. Not yet. The examples in the article are very impressive, but note that they are also very short. Listen to them more than on

The answer to the question: no. Not yet. The examples in the article are very impressive, but note that they are also very short. Listen to them more than once. There is a shape to the sentences: they start at a low pitch, rise at the end on clauses and then finally fall at the end of the sentence. Now imagine those same tones in this text: "Stop. I don't want any of your damn potatoes. If you try coming on to my property again, I will set loose the dogs." It would be perfectly understandable, but comical. We won't get full text to speech replacement until the computer understands what's in the text and that won't happen until we get GI. We can probably refine it a bit, but it's always going to be a bit odd. With enough text you will always get that uncanny valley effect. Having said that, probably we can build systems that will allow a single voice actor to play all parts in a production. That could have many advantages and I expect it to happy relatively soon.