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by forgotpasagain 462 days ago
It sounds very expressive but weirdly "fake" as if it's targeting to be similar to some NPC character, dataset issue?
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really depends on the voice. but in general, no we want to sound as realistic as possible and I expect future voices to keep improving on this front
yeah it's almost like an uncanny valley where it sometimes feels like the voice trying to be an actor and play a character or something
I mean that's literally the service it's providing. If you asked humans to do the same thing it would sound equally forced. All acting sounds cringe out of context.
IDK, i've done my fair share of amateur acting and at least to me (english is not my first language) there's something more uncanny than just the typical "say this wihtout knowing much of the context)