I spent $300 on a custom AI voice clone and it was a total waste.

I thought it would save me time on my video scripts, but the output sounded robotic and I had to redo everything. Has anyone found a good use for these clones besides basic greetings?

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ward.piper2mo ago

Honestly it feels like a lot of tech these days is just solving a problem nobody really had. Like @henryreed said, you get a robot version of yourself that can't actually do the hard part, which is sounding like a real person with feelings. My smart speaker can't even tell me a joke without it being super awkward, and my car's voice assistant still messes up simple commands. Maybe the tech just isn't there yet for anything more than a basic gimmick.

henryreed2mo ago

Three hundred bucks for a robot that sounds like me reading the phone book.

mason_knight1mo ago

Did you guys ever try using one of those early text to speech programs back in the day? I messed around with one from like 2005 or something, and it turned everything I wrote into this weird monotone robot voice that sounded like it was reading a grocery list. It was supposed to help me "sound more professional" for some project, but instead it just made me sound like I was bored out of my mind. I spent an hour trying to add punctuation and emoji codes just to get it to say a simple sentence without sounding like a malfunctioning GPS. Honestly, that experience kind of ruined the whole idea for me, because now every time I hear one of those fancy new robots, I just think about how much effort goes into making it not suck. It's like paying extra for something that still needs you to fix it.