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A lecturer who is fluently multilingual might indeed smoothly switch accents when pronouncing foreign words. But it's still the same voice, and (if they're well
by mwcampbell 2y ago
A lecturer who is fluently multilingual might indeed smoothly switch accents when pronouncing foreign words. But it's still the same voice, and (if they're well practiced at it) they don't have to pause in mid-sentence to switch languages, as text-to-speech systems usually do. And eSpeak can switch languages while still being the same voice, since it's a rule-based, parametric synthesizer. But, at least with NVDA, a mid-sentence HTML span with a different lang attribute still causes a (short) break in the intonation on either side. That's too bad, because a multilingual parametric synthesizer like eSpeak could be like the ultimate polyglot speaker, impressing us all with how smoothly it switches languages.
- mpascale00 2y agoOut of curiosity, are there models for speech synthesis which generate speech parametrically and then refine neurally?
- mananaysiempre 2y agoFYI, you seem shadowbanned[1] for some reason: all of your comments after the first one (and, now that I’ve vouched for it, this one) are marked “dead” as though downvoted to oblivion, though I find nothing that objectionable in any of them. I suggest you look at your comments page[2] from an incognito window (and perhaps contact 'dang for clarification?). [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadowbanning https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mpascale00 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mpascale00
- dang 1y agoFixed now. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!