If I put your comment to any of the popular TTS systems, it will be understandable, but painful to listen to. If I create a presentation and use a TTS instead o

If I put your comment to any of the popular TTS systems, it will be understandable, but painful to listen to. If I create a presentation and use a TTS instead of talking myself, people will cringe and hope it's over soon. That's what I meant. Also, the examples you mentioned were very specific. The Tupac song was a one-off, limited scope and highly optimized before release. If I'd use the same system to render any random text, it would still sound off. So yes, speech synthesis does "work". But to find back to the original topic, it's like driving drunk..