[hinkley]

> Artifacts aside, it sounds like Michael Jackson doing a Weird Al impression?! Every line has a distinctly “white and nerdy” vibe: it loses any seriousness and edge, exaggerating words for comic effect and enunciating lyrics really clearly so the punchlines can be heard.

No, it sounds like someone doing doing an impression of Weird Al doing an impression of Michael Jackson. Someone whose mom told them they were special and they believed it.

These examples are standing on a ridge line, surveying the uncanny valley and looking for the best way to cross.

[blagie]

... they're good enough.

I have an accent. If not for that, I'd be a great presenter.

If I could translate my voice into a poor Neil deGrasse Tyson, a poor Patrick Steward, a poor Carl Sagan, a poor Morgan Freeman, etc., my presentations would be... better.

[hinkley]

If it makes you more comfortable and confident, that is helping you.

This isn't autotune for the spoken word, though. It's not fixing pacing or vocabulary, and in the audio above it isn't even fixing intonation. Yes, a thick German accent will give you away as being of German extraction. But you're also using the word 'since' when Brits and Americans would use 'for', and it's not going to fix that. Any more than it'll fix my french when I make the exact same mistake going the other direction (for=duration vs for=purpose vs for=interval). If I hear 'since one month' you're likely German or Indian. If you ask how long I've been in Marseille you'll know I'm American in about half that time.

[totetsu]

Finally a way to not have to fix societies Prejudices just give everybody the tools to emulate the ideal of perfection no matter what color their skin or what their accent sounds like.