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Ok, I get it, state of the art TTS uses AI techniques and so eats processing power, buuuuut seeing that much older efforts which ran on devices like old PCs, th
by rob74 4y ago
Ok, I get it, state of the art TTS uses AI techniques and so eats processing power, buuuuut seeing that much older efforts which ran on devices like old PCs, the Amiga, the original Macintosh, the Kindle etc. used much less CPU for speech that you could (mostly) understand without problems, it may be worth exploring if it's possible to write a better "dumb" (i.e. non-AI) speech synthesizer?
- ben_w 4y agoBetter than the ones those systems already have? I assume they’ve already got some AI, because without AI, “minute” and “minute” get pronounced the same way because there’s no contextual clue to which instance is the unit of time and which is a fancy way of describing something as very small.
- DonHopkins 4y agoI'm still hoping that a human being can tell which of the four possible ways to pronounce the name of the English post-punk band, "The The". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIy18qIaCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIy18qIaCU
- ben_w 4y agoI have a soft spot for the Yorkshire pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzymb0YJp7E&t=160s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzymb0YJp7E&t=160s