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Casey Newton (casey@theforkiverse.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 15:28:30 JST Casey Newton

What I learned when I cloned my own voice — and how you can now get a narrated version of Platformer in your podcast player of choice https://www.platformer.news/platformer-voice-clone-elevenlabs/
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1. There is also the question of whether voice-clone me sounds — and this is the word early listeners keep using — boring. My beats don’t often lend themselves to chipper, upbeat coverage, and you can really hear this in the voice clone. Still, for the most part, I don’t find the narration much duller than I might find the average news bulletin on NPR. The dry professionalism of the clone struggles to convey my more emotional writing. But it’s more than serviceable, and I imagine it will continue to improve as the underlying technology does.
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