[stale2002]

Well we could just look at the obvious and existing use cases for text to speech stuff.

Alexa, siri, and similar, are all common place.

Another huge usecase would be anything to do with voice acting. Either in video games, cartoons, or the like.

This would completely democratize voice acting material, and would empower anyone to be able to do this for cheap.

[mattlondon]

... and put 99% of voice actors out of business. We'll eventually end up with every TV show, movie, and, video game being voiced by Ryan Gosling and Beyonce because market research.

[stale2002]

Technology that makes things better, faster, and more democratized does tend to harm those who profit off of things being expensive and gatekept, yes.

Democratization will always be the enemy of those who profit from preventing others from being empowered.