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I've been working on this for the past few weeks and was surprised to see pretty polished competitor posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945
by The_Amp_Walrus 8y ago
I've been working on this for the past few weeks and was surprised to see pretty polished competitor posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454863
Oh well, great minds think alike!
EDIT: Similarly, this uses Google's Text to Speech (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/). If this gets some traction I would love to develop my own TTS model using WaveNet (https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/ https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...), since the TTS API is super expensive.
- billconan 8y agoI thought about adding tts to my blog too. I would start from https://github.com/mozilla/TTS https://github.com/mozilla/TTS
- sid24rane 8y agoThanks for sharing. Went through the sample audios they seem to be much better than Google TTS.
- The_Amp_Walrus 8y agoAre you referring to the "basic" Google TTS or the WaveNet option? I believe the WaveNet voices are much, much better than those produced my any other TTS service or publicly available model, but I'd love to see some counter-examples.