Huggingface has some startup(s)/team(s)/project(s) on it doing "skilled-like-a-real-one voice-actors that you tweak for your needs" — should be a great boon to gamedevs, indie short-movie makers and who-knows-what-else-will. Not sure if trained American-English-only for now. Never bookmarked it so one'll have to dig through HF's tags and check out the voice things out there (if interest piqued sufficiently).
In fact, Huggingface is full of inspiring things your thread asks for. A thousand blossoms there that are _not_ just-chatbots, shovels, platforms afaict during my occasional explores.
