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Google DeepMind's David Pfau notes that text-to-speech technology has existed for decades and was already functional well before the release of ChatGPT

Early robotic outputs were largely fixed about a decade ago.

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OPDavid Pfau#150David Pfau@PFAU

What feels even weirder about this is, like, nothing was stopping you from doing this before ChatGPT? Text-to-speech has existed for decades? It used to be pretty robotic but even that was fixed like a decade ago.

9:10 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X
REPLYDavid Pfau#150David Pfau@PFAU

@wgrathwohl Depends what you're into.

billy bubbabilly bubba@wgrathwohl

@pfau It didn’t talk as sexy back then broooooooo

6:25 AM · May 20, 2026 · 19 Views
7:32 AM · May 20, 2026 · 6 Views
REPLYbilly bubba#840billy bubba@WGRATHWOHL

@pfau It didn’t talk as sexy back then broooooooo

David PfauDavid Pfau@pfau

What feels even weirder about this is, like, nothing was stopping you from doing this before ChatGPT? Text-to-speech has existed for decades? It used to be pretty robotic but even that was fixed like a decade ago.

4:10 PM · May 19, 2026 · 3.6K Views
6:25 AM · May 20, 2026 · 19 Views
Google DeepMind's David Pfau notes that text-to-speech technology has existed for decades and was already functional well before the release of ChatGPT · Digg