Well, and that's a great segue into Luke.

What did you think of this technological challenge that was being set for you?

I mean, it's a good one, right?

If you think about an opera, an opera is a great excuse to do crazy things with voices.

And speech synthesis technology, right?

So, you know, having a computer synthesize a voice, has had a really interesting history, and one of the things that we focused on in this project was looking at the things that a speech synthesizer typically is not designed to do.

So speech synthesizers were originally designed as a disability aid to help- People who are visually impaired hear books.

So if you go back to Ray Kurzweil, who sort of developed this stuff in the 1970s, it was married to an optical character recognition system so that a blind, low-vision individual could visit a library and hear a book, right?

And so, if you think about philosophically what that means, is that means the synthesized voice is the computer's voice.

So you don't really care if it kind of speaks in a monotone, or it's always the same voice, or it's kind of never changing, or it just takes a string of text and just flat out says it with no expressivity.