The AI Voice Trap

It's become trivially easy to convert text to a high-quality audio experience. But, for most publications, that's still not a good reason to do it.

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Do you remember a few years ago when many news sites offered spoken versions of their articles, usually via a button on the web page? They fell out of favor for a host of reasons, but a big one was that the quality was often pretty lousy. Now the article-as-audio idea may be coming back, thanks to generative AI.

Voice cloning software, whic…