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Google used to at least generally support the idea of the open web Yes, but history teaches us that they are terrible at product management. I mean, they could
by rhizome 9y ago
Google used to at least generally support the idea of the open web
Yes, but history teaches us that they are terrible at product management. I mean, they could at least just call it "Chrome TTS" or something until they put the whole thing together.
- thesandlord 9y agoThe demo might only work in Chrome, but the API is just a standard REST API. Most people will be using this API on the server side to generate an MP3 which is streamed to the user. Chrome actually has its own TTS engine (as does FF, Safari, etc), though the quality obviously isn't as good. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynth... (I work for GCP)
- matthewmacleod 9y agoAs I understand it, Chrome does indeed use the Google cloud platform to do its speech synthesis behind the scenes – I suppose we'll see improvements in the quality of those voices soon, too.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoThat's not entirely fair – it does work over relatively standard protocols behind the scenes. I'm just annoyed at the lack of care displayed here.