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Speech synthesis is in a similar situation. The FOSS options that I know of are completely primitive compared to their proprietary counterparts, particularly th
by mintplant 9y ago
Speech synthesis is in a similar situation. The FOSS options that I know of are completely primitive compared to their proprietary counterparts, particularly those locked away behind the cloud. Unfortunately this area seems to receive much less attention than speech recognition (AFAIK it's a non-goal of the Mozilla project, for example).
- ghaff 9y agoI suspect that it’s widely recognized that getting incremental advances in speech synthesis is really hard and, unlike potentially speech recognition, it doesn’t really solve a problem that people have. For business services and consumer devices slightly better voices are valuable but, for example, the improvements in the latest Siri voice don’t make any new things possible. But it’s part of the fit and finish of an expensive phone.
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