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AI voice actors sound more human than ever - and they're ready to hire

A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos.

The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a '90s US infomercial. WellSaid Labs describes what clients can expect from its "eight new digital voice actors!" Tobin is "energetic and insightful." Paige is "poised and expressive." Ava is "polished, self-assured, and professional."

Each one is based on a real voice actor, whose likeness (with consent) has been preserved using AI. Companies can now license these voices to say whatever they need. They simply feed some text into the voice engine, and out will spool a crisp audio clip of a natural-sounding performance.

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