It's very good. The voices reminds me of speech from real life people with accents. It's good enough for voice overs where previously real-life voices would be too expensive. I would say that it's better than Amazon's Polly when it's used to read long passages of text.
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#62Is there any API for generating speech that sounds like Google Now's assistant? The quality of that is much, much better than this new service.
Yes, I use this: https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS Very simple and has the Google Assistant voice.
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#63https://www.pastery.net/nujfhw/
I have no idea what the rate limits are, so please don't abuse it, I wrote it because the demo didn't work in Firefox and I wanted to play around with it more extensively.
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#64For any Google devs lurking out there, it doesn't seem to work at all in Firefox on Windows. It looks like it has something to do with custom web components with the following message: ReferenceError: customElements is not defined Also apparently some assertion errors with webcomponents (minified so line numbers not useful).
That's probably because custom elements aren't supported in Firefox yet, unless you set "dom.webcomponents.enabled" and "dom.webcomponents.customelements.enable" to true. It's supposed to be fully enabled in Firefox 60/61 according to MDN [0]. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...
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#65Google also announced today their Tacotron engine which features new prosody modeling speech generation. It allows them to generate speech that mimics personal intonation, accents, and rhythm, effectively mimicking an individuals "expression" in their speech. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691197
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#66Google also announced today their Tacotron engine which features new prosody modeling speech generation. It allows them to generate speech that mimics personal intonation, accents, and rhythm, effectively mimicking an individuals "expression" in their speech. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691197
I find it amusing that here we have all the corporatey buzzwords - "DeepMind WaveNet Technology" - but the other thing is called Tacotron.
* that's how i call google/alphabet when it doesn't matter which side of the tax-avoiding entity i am referring to.
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#67For any Google devs lurking out there, it doesn't seem to work at all in Firefox on Windows. It looks like it has something to do with custom web components with the following message: ReferenceError: customElements is not defined Also apparently some assertion errors with webcomponents (minified so line numbers not useful).
Call me paranoid all you want, but that is their plan. just like it was microsoft's plan for nothing on IE4/6 to work on netscape. Heck, a third of my corporate sites have DHTML popups saying "Use chrome" when i reach them with firefox already.
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#68Is it just me, or would a demo really make this posting much more interesting? Edit: There is one, on the actual Google Cloud Text-To-Speech page, so a few clicks in and you'll get one.
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#69Having an English text but setting the language to another one like German or French is hilarious. You get e.g. ze Dscherman aczent or de frensch onehe.
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#70I wish they had some beautiful voices, not some of the most generic-sounding men and women.
https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy...
The last set is specifically interesting for your wish.