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This is an incredible video, but I can't work out if the voice-over is a real person trying to sound like a machine, or surprisingly good text-to-speech synthes
by robert_tweed 12y ago
This is an incredible video, but I can't work out if the voice-over is a real person trying to sound like a machine, or surprisingly good text-to-speech synthesis.
- ejr 12y agoIt's very good text-to-speech synthesis. The voice sounds similar to "Mike" from http://www.naturalreaders.com http://www.naturalreaders.com But I cannot be certain.
- robert_tweed 12y agoI gave it a quick comparison to Ivona (which was the best TTS engine last I checked) and found that by pasting in the first sentence from the video, both did a relatively poor job. Ivona was more natural sounding, but still wasn't anywhere near as good as the video. I know Ivona has a phonetic markup language, so it's possible that the reason the video sounds so good is that someone has spent a lot of time tweaking it to get rid of any mispronunciations and misplaced inflexions.