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A markup language for voice that tells the generator how to inflect everything. It's not on the horizon yet, but anything that our voice can do, a computer will

A markup language for voice that tells the generator how to inflect everything. It's not on the horizon yet, but anything that our voice can do, a computer will do someday.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
I believe that's already out there, since services like Alexa will do certain inflections depending on the context of what they're saying. I think.
bick_nyers 5y ago
Yup exactly. Anything you would tell a voice actor to do you have in the markup. Obviously, the voice actor can still produce higher quality, probably for a long time to come.
mgdlbp 5y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp... https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html
- post-it 5y ago
  Neat! Looks like I'm behind the times already.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Then the person doing the markup becomes the talent you have to pay to make things good.
- jjk166 5y ago
  It's a lot easier to write "cries like a baby" or "screams in terror" than it is to actually do it on command, over and over again, for take after take. And one can even imagine a program with emotional slider bars that lets a person listen to how a line sounds with different levels of inflection and then automatically inserts the appropriate markup for the settings the user selects.
- account42 5y ago
  That percon can be replacable. Or it can be team. And you don't need to worry about the AI tiring or damaging their vocal cords after trying out different intonations all day. And eventually the there will be good enough automation to generate the intonattions too - either entirely or with minimal input from a voice director.

A markup language for voice that tells the generator how to inflect everything. It's not on the horizon yet, but anything that our voice can do, a computer will do someday.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

I believe that's already out there, since services like Alexa will do certain inflections depending on the context of what they're saying. I think.

bick_nyers 5y ago

Yup exactly. Anything you would tell a voice actor to do you have in the markup. Obviously, the voice actor can still produce higher quality, probably for a long time to come.

mgdlbp 5y ago

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp... https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html

post-it 5y ago
Neat! Looks like I'm behind the times already.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Then the person doing the markup becomes the talent you have to pay to make things good.

jjk166 5y ago
It's a lot easier to write "cries like a baby" or "screams in terror" than it is to actually do it on command, over and over again, for take after take. And one can even imagine a program with emotional slider bars that lets a person listen to how a line sounds with different levels of inflection and then automatically inserts the appropriate markup for the settings the user selects.
account42 5y ago
That percon can be replacable. Or it can be team. And you don't need to worry about the AI tiring or damaging their vocal cords after trying out different intonations all day. And eventually the there will be good enough automation to generate the intonattions too - either entirely or with minimal input from a voice director.