{"slug": "ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration", "title": "Ask HN: What's SOTA for AI Voice Narration", "summary": "A user on Hacker News asks for state-of-the-art AI voice narration tools after finding ElevenLabs' output flat and inconsistent for character voice acting, and after a disappointing experience with a human voice actor. The user seeks a solution that can carry emotional tone for 40 lines of dialogue.", "body_md": "I need some character voice acting for an animation I'm making. The response from people when I used Elevenlabs was that it felt flat and characters were inconsistent.\n\nI was previously using the voice reference on seedance 2.0, but obviously that's limited to 15 seconds, and I have 40 lines I have to go through\n\nFinally I just spent $75 on a human voice actor for subpar work that I can't use\n\nAnyways, is there anything better than elevenlabs right now to carry emotional tone or is it still SOTA?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726190](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726190)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726190", "published_at": "2026-06-29 22:30:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 22:50:03.604096+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "generative-ai", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["ElevenLabs", "Seedance"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-s-sota-for-ai-voice-narration.jsonld"}}