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What service was used to create the Ai voice? It's one of the first I've heard that sounds pleasant and life like.

I believe it was done with OpenAI TTS

Yup, I just used the default demo of their TTS to convert the article one chunk at a time so I could listen while I swapped some RAM around. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech