[ben_w]

Perhaps, but for what it's worth, when I first heard OpenAI's TTS demo, I assumed they were faking it and a human was speaking because it had "um"s and "err"s.

Right now, the main thing making these things recognisable is there's so few voices. The voices themselves are basically celebrities, albeit in the same way as some annoying D-list celebrity who somehow managed to get a bajillion contracts for advertising cheap tat.

Given that LLM slop is currently rapidly degrading the trustworthiness of search results (even moreso than SEO already had), it's probably for the best if the major AI providers don't release a bunch more voices.