audio
What it is
AI audio tools synthesise speech from text, clone voices from samples, and produce narration that is increasingly indistinguishable from a human recording. They're used for content creation, accessibility, localization, and anywhere that producing audio manually would be too slow or expensive to justify.
Why now
ElevenLabs and similar tools in 2023–2024 pushed voice synthesis quality past a practical threshold. The uncanny valley — that slightly-off quality that made AI voices feel robotic — narrowed to the point where it only appears under scrutiny. For most content use cases, the quality is now good enough.
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