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I'm a big fan of the android tts. A bit robotic, with quite a few prosodic errors (which is simple to get used to), but so convenient. No need to hunt for audio
by szemet 9y ago
I'm a big fan of the android tts. A bit robotic, with quite a few prosodic errors (which is simple to get used to), but so convenient. No need to hunt for audiobooks - actually in most languages the size of the audibook market is rather poor...
I can switch easily from audio to reading, e.g. listening while walking to the bus, and if I get a seat then switch to read, and then back to listening etc...
- johansch 9y agoWith the rate speech synthesis is developing, it's probably going to be hard to distinguish between human speakers and synthetic speakers in a few years from now.
- gradys 9y agoSee https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/index.html https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind... And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962543
- johansch 9y agoI think what's missing is to understand and adapt the speech rhythm and pauses based on the language. At first sight I would say that this requires human intuition, but then again, lots of literature is repetative, so I think ML could actually work quite well well, with actual understanding of the text, given enough data.
- JoshTriplett 9y agoI'm really looking forward to those actually being available to use.
- johansch 9y agoI've just started to use AWS Polly in some demos, but the speech synthesis quality feels 2-3 years old at least :/