Over the last half decade or so, there has been a big movement toward
automatic speech recognition (ASR) coupled with text-to-speech (TTS)
that has a much more "natural" tone and cadence.
"Huh! Sounds kind of like a real human, actually!" is all the rage,
while robotic recordings are out.
There's a huge polarisation in ASR and TTS technologies. The bad ones -
e.g. the stock add-ons in the open source world - are pretty bad. The
good ones, however, are really, _really_ good. And really expensive.
Last I heard Voxeo is still the market leader in that second category,
but things may have changed.
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