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I'd encourage you to listen to some cutting edge speech synthesis like Google Duplex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch

I'd encourage you to listen to some cutting edge speech synthesis like Google Duplex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0 This is live in production today - business owners are getting calls from robots, and you can trigger it yourself with Google Assistant. [Disclaimer: I work(ed) on Google Assistant - I'm in the process of transferring out - and have listened to some presentations about how Duplex works. It's pretty crazy technology.]

cellis 5y ago
It's still not very good. The state of the art vocoders ( StyleTron et al ) are years away from getting intonation right. But then if you could get intonation correct, you still need to be able to get pausing and pitch correct, let alone timbre and a few other things I'm forgetting from my research.
mateo1 5y ago
Although this is irrelevant, is Google Duplex publicly known to be used by any call center company in any capacity?