It is not stilted and awkward coming out of a screen reader. I want to smash this trope to the ground because it's clear that the authors who use it either haven't found a good screen reader like Speakit! or that they've only listened to like one or two sentences and then describe it based on that.

If you listen to computerized voices fairly regularly like Matt must you get used to how they sound, their little hick ups, and you can understand them just as easily as you can understand someone talking to you.

Stop bashing on text to speech or computerized voices in these ways. You're wrong and it's annoying.