I just started watching the Alarm Metrics video to learn about the new feature to 8.3.4 and I just had to come somewhere to vent my absolute disappointment that they chose to use an AI voice for the video.
I think it’s impersonal and detestable that Ignition is more concerned with the dollar amount of paying for a voice actor or one of their own employees to record a video. Does it cost more to use a human, sure. Does it create more engagement when you as a user feel like you’re interacting with real people instead of a machine, 100%.
Rant over, sorry if this or similar has been posted before. There’s also a good chance this post will be taken down for not being relevant, but I think it is extremely relevant to discuss the use of AI and its increasing encroachment into all of our jobs. Have I used AI to help me code, sure. Do I want AI to code for me? Absolutely NOT!
- Also, I’m fully willing to admit if I was wrong and the video has a human voice; but if it’s human, it’s the most robotic sounding human I’ve ever heard.
A lot of the videos pre-date AI last I checked but I haven’t checked recently. Many of the videos existed back in 2015.
Robotic sounding voice is often a product of the codec or sound input rather than actually being sourced from a robot. If you’re on a call with someone in a voice program and their signal gets spotty it will do that. Also, if you use a codec that encodes the audio to use less data it will do that. Sometimes it will do that when you watch content from a low bandwidth connection but I don’t know if that would happen here.
One negative thing I have noticed with Inductive University videos is that the volume isn’t always consistent. I still find them to be very useful even if I have to mess with the volume.
It's a real person.
That’s what it wants you to think 
Voice actor is probably flattering considering it's probably an IA employee that was not hired for their acting abilities 
These videos have been always helpful for myself and peers!
Huge missed opportunity to set one up with the Voice Notification Module! Katherine (US) or GTFO 
His name isn’t Claude, is it? 
(Ps. I haven't watched the video)
Here’s the exact vid.
My IA journey pre-dates IU, and I recognize that voice from the 7.8 era. It’s maybe slightly more robotic-esque as alluded to above due to compression etc.
Well after watching the video I see that both of these were incorrect 
Hot tip for IU videos. Boost to at least 1.5x speed… keeps you focused!!
Or 2x sometimes…
I love the earlier videos where it’s clear that an IA employee made them. It just helps when an experienced person can make a how to video. They understand, not only the software and programming language, but a person with real experience will often understand where people get tripped up and will explain that part better or with less technical-syntax that can lose people when they are in a tricky bit of the software.
There’s no way, just no way that it’s a human on these latest videos. Like, I apologize profusely to the person who did these if I am just dead wrong about it, but the voice just feels so impersonal and robotic; there’s even an auto-tune esque squeal to some of the words (which I’m told might be an audio codec flutter). If it’s an audio codec then they really need to invest in better recording equipment, because I am 99% convinced that’s a robot reading a script; not a human explaining a concept. Could just be the delivery too. I don’t know, it just doesn’t sound like a human talking. I miss the other narrators.
This is a good opportunity for IA to release a new training video on Wednesday (4/1) for the MCP module using "real human voices" and just troll everyone with the voice of Siri or Tiktok. LOL
They could add a T-Pain filter to IU that’s only available on April 1. 
I believe Paul. I think it’s just digital recording weirdness.
Hi Doug, I won't out her name in case she doesn't want to be mentioned, but I can assure you as someone who has voiced many of the IU videos, they are still voiced by real people. We do all sound a bit different and right now, I don't believe we have a "standard" for equipment that everyone who records IU videos uses. That is certainly something we can look into doing, to help minimize the variance in recordings.
To share a funny story about IU, way back in the day when I first joined the training team (about 10 years ago now) and I just started recording IU videos, I got an email from a user letting me know that they were having trouble understanding the voice of the woman in some of the videos. I politely let them know that the only people who had recorded IU videos were myself, Bobby, Paul Scott, Travis, Carl, Colby, and Dave, none of whom are women. It just showed me that audio weirdness comes in all forms. I get the skepticism in this day and age, with AI seemingly everywhere, but again, I can assure you that the voice you hear is very much a person.
Sounds like an answer an AI would give…
YES! There was one particular guy who talked fast and was clearly very experienced. He explained things really well, talked about detailed things and mentioned useful tid bits of info, stuff you only get from someone who has real user experience