Yes and screen readers are also a thing for people that need audio for accessibility reasons. For anyone else I don't see any point to this... Listening to audio is slower than reading, but it can be more interesting & engaging to hear people's voices and get a glimpse of their personalities in an audio interview format. An automated text to speech translation is the worst of both.

This seems unnecessarily dismissive of audio content. Some people prefer audio content to reading. And with audio you can do passive consumption while doing something else.

> An automated text to speech translation is the worst of both.

I think you're underestimating how much better we're getting at making automated voices sound human. This site is way better than the average text to speech, and technology is only going to get better at it.