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by liorben-david 1093 days ago
On one hand, this is a technological marvel and props to the person who made it.

That being said, the name sounds extremely artificially inserted, placing the video in the uncanny valley. At first I thought it was just because you were using non-English names which the model wasn't trained on sufficiently, but then it was even awkward saying "James".

When I see my name clearly copy pasted into an email trying to be fake personalized, it makes me hate the sales email. Whenever I see those emails I just read it as "I don't actually care what your name is, but I think you're stupid, so I can probably trick you into thinking this is personalized".

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Thanks for the appreciation and the criticism. I think, at least for audio calls this is very ear-catchy. Instead of cold automated calls, if your name is personalised and the whole pitch is personalised according to the category (say 5-6 categories of people in a sales pitch), it will look good. Currently, for the free-demo, we chose to use a voice that sounds almost similar to the original voice, not the actual module that the customers will get once they sign in which is much more advanced. But I understand that it was a mistake. We will add the actual module as the demo next time we show to the Hackernews community.

Thanks a lot for your inputs!!