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I don't think desktop solutions (like Microsoft speech synthesizer) does a great job at producing "natural" and life-like speeches. Sure, it does read the text,
by smiled0g 10y ago
I don't think desktop solutions (like Microsoft speech synthesizer) does a great job at producing "natural" and life-like speeches. Sure, it does read the text, but that's about it.
To properly produce speech, the synthesizer needs to take into account context of around words to determine how to pronounce ambiguous words or how to pace the speech. What about the tone? How about making the speech sounds more engaging? These are the things that need data model to work great. However, it's just difficult to cram that into a desktop app. And why would any company do that when they can put the service online and charge for it (which is totally fair)?
- flukus 10y agoI was thinking more about the other way because that's the hard part, we can understand synthesized voices better than they can understand us. Apple seems far and away the best desktop solution. For other OS's though, it's frustrating that they haven't improved on what computers of the early eighties could do. Now you've made me nostalgic though, I'll never forget the first time I heard my amiga 500 read my words.