[lesostep]

I think it might break the game. Most words sound similar enough to other words. "cat" and "get", "he simply" and "his simply", etc.

Add accents, and half the words would be indistinguishable from each other (note that word "indistinguishable", ironically, would be quite distinguishable).

People parse things like that in so much context, based in their own understanding of a situation, their grasp on speakers accent or speech impairments, etc.

Add to that that most native english speakers blur words together. The pause that in some languages is used to separate words, is used in english to separate sentences. English language as spoken doesn't separate words natively.

The text-to-speech before LLMs was meh. I think it's the ability to generate filler for uncertain words that makes it feel magic compared to before.