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skimming over the article i'm pretty sure this is exactly what i described: an LLM combined with a text to voice model - plus a whole bunch of marketing bla bla.
as i said before, you can totally pull something like this of today, if you're fine with relying on glowing cloud services.
there are a few generals on 4chan if you wanna read up on these topics.
https://4chan.org/g/aicg (Mostly about cloud based chat bots)
https://4chan.org/g/lmg (Local chat bots)
There also was a /vsg/ a while ago for local voice synthesis, but it seems like there aren't any new developments as of late.