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Honestly, this sounds absolutely terrible. Why is the quality so much worse than, say, Google's TTS running on my phone?
by danellis 11y ago
Honestly, this sounds absolutely terrible. Why is the quality so much worse than, say, Google's TTS running on my phone?
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoIt's probably the best technology that the early 90s had to offer. FTA: gnuspeech is currently fully available as a NextSTEP 3.x version in the SVN repository along with the Gnu/Linux/GNUStep version, which is incomplete though functional Wikipedia[1]: 3.0 September 8, 1992 3.1 May 25, 1993 3.2 October 1993 3.3 February 1995 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Release_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Release_history
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoThat's the price you pay for ideological freedom.
- mediocrejoker 11y agoI think maybe it sounds worse because it's based on a more accurate and complex modelling of the human voice, so while it sounds worse now, it has the potential to get better and perhaps surpass implementations using more widely used methods. Can the voice synthesis method used on Android sing, scream, or make other sounds that are not speech?
- exogen 11y agoIt does sound...vintage. The male voice (especially in The Chaos example) sounds exactly like the computer's voice in WarGames.
- gugagore 11y agofrom what I can tell, gnuspeech is fully synthesized speech. Siri, for example, uses a voice actor to say tens of thousands of utterances, and in order to generate words/phrases that don't exist, they concatenates (more or less) segments from recorded phrases.