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There's a lot of negative reaction to Polly. Besides WaveNet (which is not available as an API-- and really slow), what are better alternatives? Or is the react
by mgamache 10y ago
There's a lot of negative reaction to Polly. Besides WaveNet (which is not available as an API-- and really slow), what are better alternatives? Or is the reaction just to Amazon's marketing speak using "lifelike" and "deep learning"? I find most of the voices to be okay, but Joanna is pretty good and better then anything I've heard besides WaveNet.
Also, with Amazon's FPGA investment how long before it implements WaveNet using FPGA's to reduce the speech generation time to something that is realtime?
- mtgx 10y agoWhy would Google use FPGAs over its own (faster) TPUs? Chances are Google either doesn't have enough TPUs (it may be waiting on the next generation to go massive scale with them), or Wavenet is still too computationally intensive even for TPUs.
- mgamache 10y agoI am sure Google is looking at WaveNet & TPUs, I was just thinking Amazon would look at using its new massive FPGAs to implement WaveNet. I have no idea if the FPGAs would be fast enough.