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Wow, I hear a huge improvement in the Japanese model: the difference between a robot in person and a young woman on the phone.
by microcolonel 9y ago
Wow, I hear a huge improvement in the Japanese model: the difference between a robot in person and a young woman on the phone.
- ericlewis 9y agothis was what I noticed too, I don't really have an ear for Japanese, but it sounded as natural as when I have heard it spoken by others. Huge huge improvement.
- r00fus 9y agoThis is interesting - I don't speak much Japanese but that's the one where the difference in quality was most apparent IMHO.
- aikinai 9y agoIt's a huge improvement, but still nowhere near the state of the art for Japanese TTS which has always been ahead of English (since the phonetics are much simpler). Listen to the samples here for example: http://voicetext.jp/samplevoice/ http://voicetext.jp/samplevoice/
- microcolonel 9y agoMm, I see what you mean. It seems like voicetext.jp has more "correct" prosody, and seems to reproduce vocal fry correctly, I'm noticing that's missing from the WaveNet sample now. There's still some work to be done around filtering with voicetext, I hear pretty glaring artifacts between the units, whereas WaveNet doesn't produce any such artifacts.
- ryansama 9y agoThe Japanese wasn't so good. I like the sound of Risa in http://voicetext.jp http://voicetext.jp better. Try it out the Japanese Google used in their example. If someone knows of a better one it would be great to find out. 一つのウエーブネットのみで、多数の事なら、話者の音声波形極めて正確モデルができます。