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on the flip side, I found the "professor" voice endearing. I'm not necessarily a fan (although not a hater either), but I thought it was:

A. Impressive display of capability

B. A very clever choice as it's recognizable but not as universal as say Obama's voice or Joe Rogan's would be

C. Brilliant marketing

I probably wouldn't offer it as a "real" voice for use in bulk through the API due to the legal concerns, but on the marketing page it's really cool and I would hang on to it. Plus if you get sued it would be great publicity :-)

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Haha, I really appreciate this feedback. Everything I wanted to hear.

Frankly, trying to fight against the Goliath, with 0 marketing budget, and I’m desperately hoping to create noise. Breaking a rule or two is something AWS can’t do at their scale.

On the bulk offering, I do have a clear path forward. In short, I can create new synthetic voices. It’s like those this-person-does-not-exist images but for voice. “unreal speech”

This is a typical brute behavior. It's not about breaking a rule or two for the sake of success, it's about doing it while riding on people's backs. You think that stealing someone's voice is ok for a small startup company because you don't have the budget to know better while this is not the issue at hand. You obviously know this is wrong and are trying to get away with it riding on people's good intentions.

This is blunt and clear immoral behavior and you are fully aware of it. You just think that you have the right to reach success not by your own skills, but by stepping on other people, and until they complain you'll keep doing it.

PS: Even if Amazon does the same thing it's no excuse for you. Look up tu quoque fallacy.

Alright, Mr. Noble. You're either naive, narrow-minded, unable to see the big picture, or all above the above.

Bringing others down will never be an antidote to not building or achieving anything in your life. Your time will be better spent if you focus on bringing yourself up and others around you.

I think you want to get a rise out of someone over the Internet, with your identity hidden, to get attention. Hence, this will be my last comment-- but if you want to turn it around, I'd be down to help.

Hilarious. Get off your high horse and stop ripping off other people's voices.

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