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by Springtime 771 days ago
Speaking generally, there's an undermarketed positive privacy aspect to such voice changers, in helping with both protecting a user's identity against data scraping and doxxing. Additionally, like one other comment touched on, some people have strong accents that make communication in videos challenging (and can be a turn off for audiences and prejudice initial impressions).

Though by using an online service approach it means providing one's real voice to a service that may be using it for further training. Users have to make the call whether they feel they're good stewards.

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My accent seems to translate very well through the app, tho. The tool "only" changes color, pitch, tone, etc. not _how_ I say stuff, i.e. pronounciation, choice of words, ...