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I hope all this data helps us get better free text-to-speech libraries even for English. There's good quality speech synthesis built into OSs like Windows and M
by exporectomy 6y ago
I hope all this data helps us get better free text-to-speech libraries even for English. There's good quality speech synthesis built into OSs like Windows and MacOS and online services from Google, but if you want to include a library in your own local software, the existing open source options are all equally Steven Hawking sounding.
- franga2000 6y agoWhy include it in your app though? That's inefficient and inconsistent. If your OS has speech support, using that is going to be the best experience for the user. We definitely do need a good FOSS speech library, but it should only be used in a backend for speech-dispatcher and backend/headless apps, not anything user-facing. The OS exist for a reason.
- atat7024 6y agoSecurity. Privacy.
- franga2000 6y agoFrom your OS? If your can't trust your OS, you have bigger problems.
- exporectomy 6y agoLinux doesn't. It'd be nice if all OS's did but until then, you have to do it in your own app. Why only as a backend? Why not just compiled into applications that use it like any other library?