How should a product team evaluate synthetic voices?
Define the experience first, then test representative scripts with the intended listeners and languages. Measure intelligibility, pronunciation, voice similarity where relevant, latency and throughput separately. Obtain appropriate consent for cloned voices, and review failure cases such as names, numbers, accents and emotionally sensitive phrasing.
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