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I'm not sure about Mandarin, but this is definitely true for Japanese. Near-human Japanese text-to-speech has been around a very long time.
by aikinai 10y ago
I'm not sure about Mandarin, but this is definitely true for Japanese. Near-human Japanese text-to-speech has been around a very long time.
- Zikes 10y agoSo good they can even sing, and so well that they create entirely virtual pop stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
- dkersten 10y agoVocaloid still sounds robotic (at least, to me). It just so happens when you make autotune/melodyne'd pop songs, it really doesn't matter.
- kalleboo 10y agoVocaloid isn't automated though, it's basically an instrument that humans "play". The software has specific controls for pitch, aspiration, etc
- aninhumer 10y agoTrue, but Japanese isn't really a tonal language, so it doesn't really evidence the parent's point.
- aikinai 10y agoJapanese isn't technically "tonal" but does have "prescribed pitches" which certainly affects the ease of text-to-speech.