Comment Re:So what's your skill? (Score 2) 93
It's not merely reading a book out loud, it is about correct pronunciation, voice inflection, tone, and other things we as humans take for granted.
There's a reason cartoons and video games get to be so popular. The voices behind the characters are what make the characters come alive. They can relate to the character and their voice conveys the emotion. For as good as AI is getting at rendering voices, it still hasn't mastered emotional input.
As an aside, have AI try to narrate one of Tolkein's books. How well do you think it will do rendering some of the names?