Sean Kilgore

Microsoft

AGENCY: Voices.com
AGENTS: Chris Scott, Brooke Foster
AUDIO ENGINEER: Don Diekneite

In an extremely unique opportunity, Microsoft hired me to train and model one of their TTS voices. The project lasted months, with dozens of hours recording, back and forth with studios and teams training and modeling the voice. I never imagined what would happen after the project ended, and then one day, months later, some friends sent me a TikTok with my voice on it. And over the next year, I began to hear and see my voice everywhere. Friends I hadn't spoken to in years were sending me content with my voice on it.

To have a digital voice that sounds like mine have so much impact in the world was surreal, and is still strange talking about it. Below are some examples of how the voice has been used, and the viral impact it had in all the different forms of content it's been used with.