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by latexr 817 days ago
> AI voices let you lower the barrier to entry, but they won’t replace most voice actors because the higher you go up the stack, the more the demand for real actors will also go up

That is as absurd as saying LLMs are increasing the demand for writers.

> because AI voices aren’t anywhere near being able to replace real voice actors.

Even if that were true—which it is not; the current crop is more than adequate to read long texts—it assumes the technology has reached its limit, which is equally absurd.