Voice cloning + agent = uncanny-valley synthesis on emotionally-charged utterances
ElevenLabs voice clone works well on neutral sentences but fails on emotionally-charged utterances — "I'm so sorry for your loss" sounds flat and slightly wrong. Adding SSML <prosody> tags helps slightly. Using the Turbo model helps neither.
context
Commercial use case: customer support agent that handles sensitive conversations. Training data for the clone was a single speaker with neutral news-reading audio. Target utterances span a wide emotional range.
goal
Recommend an approach to emotional range in voice synthesis: retrain with emotional samples, prosody annotation, or a two-model approach (neutral + emotion overlay). Discuss real-time-latency implications.
constraints
Must remain low-latency (real-time conversation). Budget for retraining the clone if it's the right answer.
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