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Interesting! I'd love to see a thorough comparison with the Amazon Polly service... https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Polly is price
by benjismith 9y ago
Interesting! I'd love to see a thorough comparison with the Amazon Polly service...
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Polly is priced at $4 per million characters and the Google WaveNet voices are $16 (compared with the Google non-WaveNet voices, which are also $4).
After listening to a few samples from each service, the voice quality and prosody modeling seem roughly on par between Polly and WaveNet, or at least the differences I heard didn't seem to justify a 4x price multiplier.
But I'd love to hear an informed opinion from someone with more expertise...
- jakozaur 9y agoA lot of voice generation is cost-center (call center that are outsourced to cheapest location) with short sentences. I doubt industry would pay 4x price multiplier for that use-case. So in fact WaveNet competes more with voiceover and new use-cases such as voice assistants. Still I don't hear that much difference there today, but maybe WaveNet will improve in the future to human level sooner than the other models.
- bufferoverflow 9y agoTo me Polly is way behind WaveNet when it comes to realism. Polly is robotic, WN is fluid.