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Ask HN: WaveNet Text-to-Speech app/plugin?
Has anyone seen or is anyone working on a text to speech app or plugin using Deepmind[1]? This is something I would actively pay a subscription for and googling around yielded nothing obvious.
[1]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
- bckmn 9y agoAt Narro[1] we are allowing users beta access to the WaveNet voices: https://www.narro.co/voices-beta https://www.narro.co/voices-beta with good results so far[2]. Narro summary: https://www.narro.co/pr https://www.narro.co/pr [1]: https://www.narro.co https://www.narro.co [2]: https://mobile.twitter.com/kiliankoe/status/990967062121058315 https://mobile.twitter.com/kiliankoe/status/9909670621210583... Other voices available on Narro: https://www.narro.co/voices-demo https://www.narro.co/voices-demo
- tarrasq 9y agoI am working on an app idea that uses Wavenet. What did you have in mind specifically? What would be useful?
- neom 9y agowebsites (email+news) and pdfs, I'd pay $50/mth to have realistic t2s for these things alone. As someone who struggles greatly with the written word, the productivity gains are massive.