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For me the intonation of words and the pauses between them seem quite off from natural speech as well.

• williamstein 3y ago
  It sounds like unnatural "podcast speech".
  • dalmo3 3y ago
    As a non-native speaker, I very much prefer this more steady voice than the unbelievably fake intonation a lot of American podcasters/YouTubers use when reading from a script. Mark Rober comes to mind as having a particularly unnatural and annoying cadence, intonation and pitch shifting during sentences.
  • noduerme 3y ago
    It does. It's irritatingly stilted in exactly the same way as The Daily.