>This makes these projects so much more trustworthy and easier to approach:

>> Were any of the words here written using AI? Nope. They came from my mouth or my fingers.

I have to push back on this a bit, as I believe (quite strongly) that we're shaped by the tools we use; text-to-speech LLMs are still LLMs, and generally their mistakes are shaped by the expectations inherent in their training. This, in turn, shapes the words that appear on the screen. For those who regularly use them, you then learn which word sequences are likely to be accurately transcribed, and this definitively becomes part of your thinking process. Over time, the LLM becomes tangled into your thinking; the use of AI, even in this way, very much can and often does shape the resulting words.

Isn't this like saying "my words are not really my own when I speak to my family, because I know my father is a non-native English speaker and hard of hearing so I try to use words which are well enunciated and are few in syllable count"?

Parakeet, probably the most popular model for handy-style transcription, doesn't include a "text-to-speech LLMs" or any other form of LLM

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