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This is because that's one of the developers themselves and not some marketing team. I understood pretty well despite English not being my primary language.

I'm not a developer really, and I'm not part of the team for close to two years already :)

I grew up speaking English in the US and didn't have trouble understanding him. The accent is thick, but it's understandable.

Anyway all of the content is also in the text of the page.

no no. i understood everything normally. the sound felt weird thats all

Uncanney valley probably comes from the sounds either being speech or complete 100% silence, dead space being cut out. I think it is understandable and clearly not a robot though.

Oh, I'm probably bad, but definitely not a robot :) Bleep.

I think there's some distortion added by the Noise Repellent plugin, will look into tweaking settings.