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The only sample I found arguably better than AWS was Female B. The others were too close to an uncanny valley (Professor, Entrepreneur), or the cadence was all

The only sample I found arguably better than AWS was Female B. The others were too close to an uncanny valley (Professor, Entrepreneur), or the cadence was all over the place (Male A and Male B). I spend a lot of time listening to AWS's text-to-speech. It can be distracting at times. But with Unreal Speech's text-to-speech, I'd lose focus incredibly quickly and focus on the issues with cadence or general weirdness (Professor's pitch change is too abrupt, and weirdly gets caught on the word used which throws off the cadence of natural speech).

jazz3020 4y ago
Honestly, I'm super happy that you found one voice arguable better than AWS. I might argue, though, you might get used to our voices quickly once you start using it frequently. I've had this feedback before from someone who was very used to AWS's monotonous voice, and he actually changed his opinion after listening to a couple of articles. Previously, I built https://audioread.com https://audioread.com which got me to talk to a bunch of users.
- freedomben 4y ago
  dammit to hell (in a disappointed but congratulatory voice), I'm building basically the exact same product as audioread.com right now. I thought it was a great idea and was shocked I couldn't find any implementations yet :-( kudos to you on having a wonderful idea :-D Guess I'll move on to my next idea
  - jazz3020 4y ago
    Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism
    - Melting_Harps 4y ago
      I'm not a big fan of NLP, personally, as I think its kind of creepy how easily it is to deepfake a voice these days given a very moderate amount of content that can be scraped online: but I like the 'disrupt the giant' attitude you have. > Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism But honestly, THIS is why I keep coming back to HN, rather than take an adversarial route and needlessly bicker entrepreneurs should be collaborating and utilizing each others strengths. Well done, I know want to see your progress as your product matures! Who knows, I (a AI/ML student) might have a need for your services yet.
- gremlinsinc 4y ago
  I think the random generator might be broken.... It spit out some offensive stuff that maybe you don't want on a business site, though it did give me a laugh lol... > What the fk did you just fking say about me, you little btch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills.

jazz3020 4y ago

Honestly, I'm super happy that you found one voice arguable better than AWS. I might argue, though, you might get used to our voices quickly once you start using it frequently. I've had this feedback before from someone who was very used to AWS's monotonous voice, and he actually changed his opinion after listening to a couple of articles. Previously, I built https://audioread.com https://audioread.com which got me to talk to a bunch of users.

freedomben 4y ago
dammit to hell (in a disappointed but congratulatory voice), I'm building basically the exact same product as audioread.com right now. I thought it was a great idea and was shocked I couldn't find any implementations yet :-( kudos to you on having a wonderful idea :-D Guess I'll move on to my next idea
- jazz3020 4y ago
  Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism
  - Melting_Harps 4y ago
    I'm not a big fan of NLP, personally, as I think its kind of creepy how easily it is to deepfake a voice these days given a very moderate amount of content that can be scraped online: but I like the 'disrupt the giant' attitude you have. > Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism But honestly, THIS is why I keep coming back to HN, rather than take an adversarial route and needlessly bicker entrepreneurs should be collaborating and utilizing each others strengths. Well done, I know want to see your progress as your product matures! Who knows, I (a AI/ML student) might have a need for your services yet.
gremlinsinc 4y ago
I think the random generator might be broken.... It spit out some offensive stuff that maybe you don't want on a business site, though it did give me a laugh lol... > What the fk did you just fking say about me, you little btch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills.