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Yeah I came across tldr.io the other day and really like the concept. Would love an introduction. PS: the codename of the backend that powers all this is actua
by longzheng 14y ago
Yeah I came across tldr.io the other day and really like the concept. Would love an introduction.
PS: the codename of the backend that powers all this is actually "tldr" since I can't be stuffed reading :)
- czzarr 14y agohey longzheng, cofounder of tldr.io here, petercooper just pointed me to this thread. Please send me an email: stan at tldr io
- edhooper 14y agoSoundGecko plus tldr.io would be awesome
- petercooper 14y agoI've pointed them to this thread to see what they think. Look forward to seeing this progress. (And as an aside, I really wish someone would crack the TTS 'uncanny valley' problem 100%. It's a surprisingly difficult problem.)
- longzheng 14y agoThanks Peter. Already drafting email. You're absolutely right about the TTS uncanny valley problem. We're betting on the fact that this is an industry effort. Currently we don't have the resources to really invest in the core TTS technology but always on the look-out for breakthrough/experimental tech.
- jstclair 14y agoThere's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions. For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make the computer speak high-quality foreign curse words. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-install-and-use-mac-os-x-lions-high-quality-speech-voices/ http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-ins...
- petercooper 14y agoI'd never noticed this before - cool! Samantha and Tom in the US English section sound particularly good. The only major problem I seem to perceive is that the transitions between certain words and phones aren't smooth enough and are jarring. It doesn't sound like they're far off but I guess 90% of the work is in the last 10% ;-)