Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI.

I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?

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@wilfredh Maybe we're just getting used to that. AutoTune in mass-music, compression artifacts in codecs and headphones...

@dpwiz Yeah, I think that's definitely a factor too. We've had distorted speech from radios for over a hundred years!

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