Navigation / announcement prompts
Voice Actor · Commercial Voice-over
“Navigation / announcement prompts” (Voice Actor) was largely replaced by AI in 2022, after AI entered in 2015.
AI enters
2015
Largely replaced
2022
Replacement progress
100%
Technology / key factor
TTS speech synthesis
What this task is
Recording voice prompts for navigation apps, station announcements and phone menus, such as turn instructions or arrival notices, in a clear and standard speaking voice.
How AI replaces it
From 2015, text-to-speech (TTS) became clear and natural enough to generate any prompt on demand without recording each line. By 2022 such prompts were largely produced by synthetic voices.
What stays human
Voice actors occasionally supply recordings that are used to train custom synthetic voices, but overall demand for this kind of work has dropped sharply.