[nameoda]

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 :)

[djaychela]

I 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!

[bigtones]

Yes, 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.