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Impressive as the technology is, the talking women ads seem to be a bad thing. I often find myself scrolling fast on pages, leaping over bits to avoid my mouse accidentally setting her off to say something.
Don't like the english-accent one much - something not quite right about the accent. Really fails to capure the rosy nature of the female English voice. Plus it'd be good to have a Liverpudlian one, maybe welsh...
I worry. This technology WILL become abused by the porn industry very soon, you can see that. It's worth a lot of traffic and money to them. Luckily I'm working on semantic engines and a.i. and by the time they've got the voices sounding ideal, the opensource community can push forward lots of genuine usage for this stuff (which without proper a.i. makes it far more useful to porn and sales and other less progressive disciplines - because there's no real substance involved at any ongoing level, the voices can be used for simplistic stuff only. Porn films, for example, have no plot. Thus they require less sophisticated creative resources, in human terms).
Naturally, I think it's a smart technology though. Get me an irish one and I probably won't scroll past as fast. Still, it's really dull hearing the same stuff over and over.
I reckon I have to give it an irritating rating, however:
if the scale is 1 to 100, I give it at least 10 or so, after a week or two. Naturally, irritation sells also, but it doesn't brand too well. Jingles are really annoying and you probably find you buy, in the end, from a nonjingler, for the longterm.
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