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Vent: Dropped $200 on a voice cloning tool for my small business and it was a total letdown

I run a little online shop in Austin and thought an AI voice clone for our customer service messages would save me time. Paid $199 for a monthly subscription to clone my voice for automated replies. But it sounded so robotic and flat even after training it for 3 days. Ended up scrapping it and going back to my old system. Has anyone else tried these voice AI tools and actually got them to work right?
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william_torres
Man that sucks. You mentioned it sounding "robotic and flat even after training it for 3 days" and that reminds me of the time I tried to use one of those AI video dubbing tools for a project and it kept pronouncing "pecan" like "pee-can" no matter how many times I corrected it. I swear these AI things have a weird hangup where they just refuse to catch normal speech patterns. I spent a whole weekend feeding it audio samples of me talking to customers and it still came out sounding like a GPS from 2005. I guess the technology just ain't there yet for small shop stuff, especially when you compare it to the smooth demos they show online.
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the_oscar
the_oscar28d ago
pee-can" is how most of the South says it, so your tool was right there.
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ryan369
ryan36923d ago
Yeah the AI just doesn't get how real people talk yet.
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