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>As someone who has used TTS a Lot in recent projects, I’m not excited about listening to AI read a book to me. It feels soulless.

AI TTS still uncanny valley enough to distract. I prefer even more soulless traditional TTS which sounds "neutral" after habituation. To the point where my brain can start layering on characterization as if I was reading. AI TTS feels like listening to to medicore voice actor, where it's hard to overwrite their creative choices, so just left disapointmented and annoyed.

[IggleSniggle]

I agree completely! I kinda like the neutral tone of a soulless robot when it knows how to stay out of the way. Far better than a bad AI _or_ a poor human reading.