I still can't stand listening to machine voices (and the samples here haven't changed my response) but they're getting better and, as noted in this study reported by Mozilla, some machine-generated voices are scoring more highly than some human voices. I would imagine machine voices will some become ubiquitous, which means the selection of voice matters. "What happens when computers are more pleasant to listen to than our own voices? What happens when our children might prefer to listen to our computer reading a story than ourselves?... What happens when we can increase the number of people who believe something simply by changing the voice that it is read in?" Related: Google Duo uses AI to insert missing packets in online audio.
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