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I'm almost sure its streamed

qwertox 3y ago
It is streamed. They also offer this as an API for developers [0]. I just wish they'd offer more languages as it currently is English only. It can speak German and Spanish, but with a very clear English accent, which makes it kind of funny and makes one think about why the accent sounds so real. [0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech
- gtirloni 3y ago
  The Brazilian Portuguese accent was hilarious when I tried it a month ago. We thought it was some kind of joke we didn't understand.
  - guiambros 3y ago
    Just tried now, and it was pretty good. Some slight accent that I wasn't able to detect (Minas Gerais?). Similar / better than the artificial voice of other assistants in pt-br. I'm using Sky's voice, FWIW.
    - gtirloni 3y ago
      When I tried it right when it was released, it was some really heavy accent from Piracicaba. People there talk like that but ChatGPT seemed to be doing a forced impression of that. It seems similar to what other commenters are saying about it taking in German with an American accent. It's no big deal but Siri/Google/Alexa voices are better normalized, IMHO. I don't mind heavy accents at all in humans but they get annoying after a while for a voice assistants, especially if it's not my accent :) I tried it now but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe related to the outage yesterday (is it still going on?). It just listens but never replied.
  - swah 3y ago
    Which voice did you pick? I picked one that sounds amazing, only has a funny gringo accent.
- nicce 3y ago
  ChatGPT version works for any language
  - qwertox 3y ago
    Yes, there it sounds just perfect. The best TTS I've ever heard.
- tempaccount420 3y ago
  > It can speak German and Spanish Among others... Had to check myself. > Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
- mlrtime 3y ago
  I'm playing with it now, It can listen in Russian, reply in English or Russian. The English pronunciation is perfect, but some Russian words do not have the correct pronounciation or emphasis. I'm wondering if I can train the model to pronounce these words more accurately.

It is streamed. They also offer this as an API for developers [0]. I just wish they'd offer more languages as it currently is English only. It can speak German and Spanish, but with a very clear English accent, which makes it kind of funny and makes one think about why the accent sounds so real. [0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-to-speech

gtirloni 3y ago
The Brazilian Portuguese accent was hilarious when I tried it a month ago. We thought it was some kind of joke we didn't understand.
- guiambros 3y ago
  Just tried now, and it was pretty good. Some slight accent that I wasn't able to detect (Minas Gerais?). Similar / better than the artificial voice of other assistants in pt-br. I'm using Sky's voice, FWIW.
  - gtirloni 3y ago
    When I tried it right when it was released, it was some really heavy accent from Piracicaba. People there talk like that but ChatGPT seemed to be doing a forced impression of that. It seems similar to what other commenters are saying about it taking in German with an American accent. It's no big deal but Siri/Google/Alexa voices are better normalized, IMHO. I don't mind heavy accents at all in humans but they get annoying after a while for a voice assistants, especially if it's not my accent :) I tried it now but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe related to the outage yesterday (is it still going on?). It just listens but never replied.
- swah 3y ago
  Which voice did you pick? I picked one that sounds amazing, only has a funny gringo accent.
nicce 3y ago
ChatGPT version works for any language
- qwertox 3y ago
  Yes, there it sounds just perfect. The best TTS I've ever heard.
tempaccount420 3y ago
> It can speak German and Spanish Among others... Had to check myself. > Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
mlrtime 3y ago
I'm playing with it now, It can listen in Russian, reply in English or Russian. The English pronunciation is perfect, but some Russian words do not have the correct pronounciation or emphasis. I'm wondering if I can train the model to pronounce these words more accurately.