[makin]

> We recognize that generating speech that resembles people's voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year. We are engaging with U.S. and international partners from across government, media, entertainment, education, civil society and beyond to ensure we are incorporating their feedback as we build.

People had been theorizing the slowdown in releases was because of this, I didn't expect they would come out and admit it.

I've found the quality of Elevenlabs' voice generation is at least twice as good as this, which is surprising since OpenAI has had more time and money to work on this. There seemed to be an issue with inconsistent accents in the multilingual samples.

[singularity2001]

They might have been forced to give a signal after this rose on HN today:

https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861578