An ad video/audio that calls out customer's name in your own voice

Thanks for the appreciation and the criticism. I think, at least for audio calls this is very ear-catchy. Instead of cold automated calls, if your name is personalised and the whole pitch is personalised according to the category (say 5-6 categories of people in a sales pitch), it will look good. Currently, for the free-demo, we chose to use a voice that sounds almost similar to the original voice, not the actual module that the customers will get once they sign in which is much more advanced. But I understand that it was a mistake. We will add the actual module as the demo next time we show to the Hackernews community.

Thanks a lot for your inputs!!

Related to uncanny valley with random name insertion, one way to combat this is to have two sentences for the greeting: (1) "Hi/Hey" and (2) <name>. This would allow designers to reduce the stress on (1) and alternate pitch and stress more freely on (2), reducing "uncanny valley" effects.

This also allows you to cross check the input name against names used in pranks (e.g., Yuri Nator; Seymore Butts; Anita Tums; Anita Dikkenmee; Holden Mycock). You could then decide if a prank name is detected to add a little laugh after the name is spoken, for additional personalization.