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The audio at the top of the page, marked "Voiced by Amazon Polly" has so much dissonance - they've inserted fake sounds to seem as if the speaker is drawing bre
by nameoda 6y ago
The audio at the top of the page, marked "Voiced by Amazon Polly" has so much dissonance - they've inserted fake sounds to seem as if the speaker is drawing breath, which sounds pretty realistic, but the actual enunciation of words is so robotic and fake-sounding :)
- bigtones 6y agoYes, I immediately noticed that when I started listening too. You can hear him inhale at the start of a paragraph which is kind of freaky, because his voice is super-robotic. Amazon Polly is in the uncanny valley of text to speech now.
- djaychela 6y agoI spend HOURS editing breaths and other noises out of the VOs I do... and they put them in? Why on earth would you do that? The voice is the unconvincing part - if that was 100% realistic, then the breaths to try to convince the listener that it's real would not be needed!