Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" with a Modern Speech Synthesis Engine (opens in new tab)

For Radiohead’s 1997 ‘Fitter Happier’, Thom Yorke used the MacInTalk speech engine’s ‘Fred’ voice to produce the vocals. We updated the vocals with ElevenLabs modern speech synthesis.

Here’s a link to the code.

https://github.com/Canonical-AI-Inc/canonical-voiceover

I guess it's okay(ish) marketing. It would have been better to hear them together, but it also misses the point and takes a piece of art and turns it into something bland and uninspiring.