I get your point, and in large parts agree with you, but sometimes it's just nicer to have a video to watch (especially if there is also an important visual com

I get your point, and in large parts agree with you, but sometimes it's just nicer to have a video to watch (especially if there is also an important visual component to it) than reading the equivalent script. > Some humans are bad narrators, of course, and the machine-generated voice may not be worse by comparison. The problem is I'd just rather not listen to an emotionless voice -- whether it's machine-generated or human -- read a script, I'd rather just read it myself. If it's in the end really just a script that's read off, I'd rather have it auto-generated. You are right, there are some people that are "bad narrators" on a technical level (looking at you, people in the CircleCI Youtube ads, which prompted me to start this project), but even "good narrators" like e.g. the guy from the Kurzgesagt videos, often times don't convey any more emotion, and could be replaced with an auto-generated voice. > Maybe I'm wrong and the generated voices are much better than I've heard (any examples?) The best one in my opinion you can get of the shelf are the Google WaveNet[0] ones. They are the least "tinny" ones with good pronunciation. Out of the open source ones, Mozilla TTS[1] has some very good results[2], but like all other open source ones it's very hard to get running, and even then it has a much more limited featureset (languages, pronunciation, etc.). Happy to hear suggestions here! I think we've already crossed a point where the quality is good enough for a lot of applications (= it doesn't distract from the script through constant wrong pronunciation), and the future for the field is looking pretty good. [0]: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS https://github.com/mozilla/TTS [2]: https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/ljspeech-logistic-wavernn https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/ljspeech-logistic-wave...