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Voice synthesis is really fantastic at this point. But there is a critical flaw in every single actual USE of it. They are obsessed with their 'cloud' and don
by otakucode 8y ago
Voice synthesis is really fantastic at this point. But there is a critical flaw in every single actual USE of it. They are obsessed with their 'cloud' and don't do any of the processing locally. This guarantees the telltale latency lag which can not be remedied. Conversation with any synthetic voice will always be a beat off due to the latency. It's the same as the annoying wait while Alexa or Siri sends your voice data off to a cloud to be processed (which is utterly unnecessary for the recognition part). You will always know you're talking to a robot because the brain isn't in the head you're talking to and the speed of light is only so fast.
- djrogers 8y ago> It's the same as the annoying wait while Alexa or Siri sends your voice data off to a cloud to be processed (which is utterly unnecessary for the recognition part). True - in fact the iPhone actually does transcription on-device, AFAIK the cloud loop is for validation and to get answers. Dont believe me? Put your iphone in airplane mode and use the dictation button on your keyboard!