[spoaceman7777]

To accurately imitate human speech?

You could type something, and it could be read like a human.

There are plenty of other reasons, but they're equally as obvious. I don't understand what purpose you have in attempting to make this point.

[mentalgear]

Different things: You are describing voice narration or TTS use cases. My comment was regarding "emotional chatbots" that are imitating to have a genuine connection with their users.

[yimby2001]

The funny part is that no one would be arguing like they do in these forums if they were talking face-to-face with conveying things like “emotion”