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> especially so for audio books Perhaps real human readers can help? > The correct inflections, pauses Because a model that can imitate a voice is still not

• MrOwnPut 4y ago
  > Perhaps real human readers can help? Certainly, and they do, but computers can annotate much faster, without attrition, and cost much less. Generally you'll have human recordings for what you can, and TTS for anything missing. There are a lot of books, live streams, podcasts, articles, etc. in the world. > There's no need to have model that can do that. I wouldn't say there's no need, or otherwise we wouldn't talk that way. It's a human element and the generated speech is for human ears. > A robotic accent is best. Best is subjective because that's a human preference. That being said, I'd say your preference is a far outlier. Most people's "best" would be what they are used to hearing; the speech of native speakers.