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Based on the pricing of $16 per 1 million characters (roughly equal to a 400-500 page book), doesn't this severely threaten the voiceover market place? I just p
by ryeguy_24 9y ago
Based on the pricing of $16 per 1 million characters (roughly equal to a 400-500 page book), doesn't this severely threaten the voiceover market place? I just priced the cost of a human voiceover on VoiceBunny.com for a 400-page book and I got an average turnaround time of 90 days / $15K cost vs WaveNet's $16 cost and only 30 mins of computational time. That sounds like an interesting disruptor to me.
- brad0 9y agoIt does if people are willing to listen to the voice for 10 hours+. I could listen to this voice for a while, but the voice needs more emotion in it before it could be actually useful for long text.
- dhon_ 9y agoTacotron (also by Google) looks promising in this area https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_tokens/index.html https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_...