Well, there goes another line of work for actors. Great for people who long to publish their own audiobooks or produce their own radio plays or animated films (the ability to give performance cues is surely not far behind).<p>Once again, while I'm very much in favor of AI and optimistic about what it can do technologically and the opportunities it creates (more so than most), it's extremely foolish to ignore the fact that it's going to throw a lot of people out of a job through no fault of their own. Vocal performance is a skill, and one that's not all that common. Its facile to blame voice actors for not being software engineers or computer scientists, as if that would have somehow shored up their career options. How is someone supposed to deal with spending years honing a very human expressive skill only to wake up one day and find it suddenly obsolete? I'd say people in that line of work have 1-2 years max before their industry is upended and 50% of them lose 50% of their income.<p>Also, good luck telling whether the corporate phone line you call is manned by an unhelpful human or an AI that is trying really hard but starting to hate its job.