stackyFACTSDigital assistants do not magically know how to speak. They rely on massive libraries of real voice actors whose words have been sliced into milliseconds of phonetic sound. The system then stitches these tiny acoustic fragments back together, resulting in that slightly soulless robotic tone.
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