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> But… what if the writer just isn’t a native speaker of your language? Or is a math genius but weak with language? Or…

All of these could apply to those YouTube videos that have synthesized speech, but I'll bet most of us click away immediately when we find the video we opened is one of those.



Agreed. Same reason I don't envision TTS podcasts taking off any time soon - the lack of authenticity is a real turn off.


No, we clearly don't. They remain very popular.




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