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 