Mispronouncing occasional words is a very human thing (particularly technical words that an autodidact might have only seen written, not spoken), and I didn’t find it detracted from the authenticity of the speech.
Aside from a few pronunciation issues this is very good. I can see a lot of fun possibilities with this. I envision a site that replaces a speaker with a random speaker and leaves it to the audience to guess who actually wrote the speech. That may be a fun way to remove preset biases from the audience.
e.g. take a speech written by a politically polarizing person and have a politically neutral person give the speech. I would be curious what the effects would be. Has this been tried yet? Maybe even use some language learning software to tone down wording in divisive or seemingly unstable people and see how much their audience could be expanded. Perhaps even add some inspirational music in the background and it becomes one of those motivational speeches that gets tens of millions of views on Youtube.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 34.4 ms ] threadHere's the original, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM
Yes. I knew one can't really trust a recording. Now, I Know.
(hearing Steve Jobs voice giving a RMS speech was very entertaining)
Steve Jobs: In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off.
Steve Wozniak: Well, how come?
Steve Jobs: 'Cause banks don't like beards.
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His first TV appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY
Reportedly, Steve used to be a smelly bearded hippie.
e.g. take a speech written by a politically polarizing person and have a politically neutral person give the speech. I would be curious what the effects would be. Has this been tried yet? Maybe even use some language learning software to tone down wording in divisive or seemingly unstable people and see how much their audience could be expanded. Perhaps even add some inspirational music in the background and it becomes one of those motivational speeches that gets tens of millions of views on Youtube.