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Yes, but can it be used to express emotions? Can it derive emotions from the text alone, without the painstaking guidance? That seems to be the main culprit wit
by orbital-decay 4y ago
Yes, but can it be used to express emotions? Can it derive emotions from the text alone, without the painstaking guidance? That seems to be the main culprit with existing TTS engines; neutral tone can be generated relatively well.
- vanderZwan 4y agoHonestly I suspect some kind of "emotional markdown" would be more useful if it has a light and intuitive syntax
- com2kid 4y agoHumans can't drive emotions from text alone without external contextual clues. Such has been the source of much miscommunication online. Amateur fiction writing, which tends to overemphasize how things are said ("I guess I can go rescue your cat", the exasperated detective said wearily) might be easier for AI!
- Valgrim 4y agoSure they can, that's the whole point of acting. Also anyone who ever read a story to a kid can infer emotions from the text itself.
- com2kid 4y agoTo a limited extent, sure, but kids books are also written to be very emotive. The linked page actually has examples of the same text being read with different emotions, demonstrating that for even a single sentence a lot of variance is possible.