Ugh... Wolf is The Worst

I'm guessing that Politico is not a big fan of CNN's Wolf Blitzer. 

Hell, CNN's one media critic once posted on Twitter, "Ugh....Wolf is the worst." 

But, Politico goes deeper, writing, "the best evidence that a lower grade of artificial intelligence powers CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer’s jaw, and not the usual proteins that convert chemical energy into mechanical energy, resides in the fact that he sounds like a text-to-speech robot when he opens his mouth. As flat, and sometimes as bleak, as the Great Plains, Blitzer’s voice squeezes all human emotion and intonation out of the sentences he speaks. No dramatic pauses for Blitzer, and no changes of inflection to command his listeners’ attention. His voice knows only one raspy pace, that of a speed-walker, whether he’s talking about President Donald Trump’s latest tweet, a congressional battle, a suicide bombing or a dip in the Dow. If his voice were a baked good, it would be a soda cracker. If you looked for it on the color wheel, it would be the blotch of light gray. If you ran out of bubble wrap, you could use his voice to secure the contents of a package.

But the Blitzer-is-a-bot case collapses when you compare his voice with those of Alexa or Siri, two electro-mechanical speakers that have mastered tempo, rhythm and the other aspects of phonology. Besides, no modern robot would insert the placeholder word “uh” with the frequency Blitzer does. He’s human, all right, but barely."

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