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It's very good. The voices reminds me of speech from real life people with accents. It's good enough for voice overs where previously real-life voices would be
by WheelsAtLarge 9y ago
It's very good. The voices reminds me of speech from real life people with accents. It's good enough for voice overs where previously real-life voices would be too expensive. I would say that it's better than Amazon's Polly when it's used to read long passages of text.
- ghaff 9y agoI don't know. They're good but they still sound robotic. For me, they work for applications where I sort of expect/accept that I'll get computer-generated speech anyway. But I wouldn't use them as a general substitute for a human speaking, even someone like me who doesn't exactly have a radio voice.
- remir 9y agoIt's getting more and more human sounding. Take a look at this research (also from Google): https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-synthesis-with.html https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy...
- ghaff 9y agoIt absolutely is. But I'm looking at it from a perspective of whether I could put a daily or weekly podcast out there using one of these TTS services and I come out with a resounding no (today).