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Which it fails miserably at. They probably picked the one example that worked. Someone linked another example here: https://soundcloud.com/zack-bloom/amazons-
by revelation 10y ago
Which it fails miserably at. They probably picked the one example that worked.
Someone linked another example here:
https://soundcloud.com/zack-bloom/amazons-new-text-to-speech-api https://soundcloud.com/zack-bloom/amazons-new-text-to-speech...
And it pronounces 1970s (the decade) as one-thousand-nine-hundred-seven-ths.
- PaulRobinson 10y agoYou're not wrong, but that's still the best real-time TTS sample I've ever heard.
- mwcampbell 10y agoOne blind guy I know opined in the late 90s that it's better to let the brain do the interpreting. But I understand that expansion of abbreviations makes TTS more attractive for mainstream applications.
- hosh 10y agoI was looking around for samples, and this is the only sample I have heard so far. I think that sounds pretty good. The emotional tone is off, but it is a lot better than say, Siri (which I understand was designed to sound robotic to highlight the tech). But I'm also the guy who has had my MBP announce the hour and it has freaked out coworkers. I don't know if this is crossing into uncanny valley territory. I think some of this is not being used to it. Google Map's driving voice sounds subtly better than that voice sample. I'm looking forward to seeing if a similar service is coming for GCP.