This creates a unique comedic and dramatic tension. When a GPS says in a deadpan wiseguy voice, "Hey, wiseguy, you missed the turn. Now we gotta loop around the block. You wanna pay for the gas?" — the humor isn't just in the words. It's in the impossibility of the situation. The machine is pretending to have a life. It is pretending to have a mother it calls every Sunday. It is pretending to be insulted.
There are currently three primary methods for generating Wiseguy voice work via TTS:
Enhances the dialogue sections of crime fiction, noir thrillers, and biographies by giving antagonists or side characters their rightful regional flavor.