How Transformers Killed the Robot Voice

Remember the robotic voice of old text-to-speech? This episode breaks down exactly how neural TTS works under the hood — from text tokenization to transformer self-attention to vocoders — and why we now deliberately add "ums" and pauses back into near-perfect models. If you've ever wondered how your podcast app reads articles aloud, this is the episode for you. Episode #891399 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/891399