Text-to-speech is commonly used as an accessibility feature to help people who have trouble reading on-screen text.

Google's text-to-speech feature reads back sentences to you in a robotic voice to help you catch grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and awkward phrasing. Devon Delfino/Business Insider 3.

AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people New research shows models can be directly edited to hide selected voices, even when users specifically ask for them.