Voice assistants and the smart devices they inhabit have successfully attuned our ears to synthesized voices (for the most part). Thanks to them and the increasing adoption of text-to-speech (TTS) technologies, audio has completely changed the way people consume content these days. This shift to eardrums wouldn’t have been possible if at the center of it wasn’t a voice that genuinely sounds like a real, human voice. But, there’s still the stigma of the technology sounding too robotic, monotone,