Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology

Post by freehunter » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

Gatsky wrote: post #44

matthewmacleod wrote: post #30

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Doesn't work in Safari. Doesn't work in Firefox. Doesn't work in Edge. I don't want to be unreasonable, but Google used to at least generally support the idea of the open web. There are a bunch of different UAs out there; while I accept it's more challenging to support some than others, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a product launch from a large-scale web company should at the very least give us an error mes…

Come on now, it's a cloud machine learning product, you can access it using purely open source tools all running on an open source operating system if you like. No need to pronounce doom because the demo doesn't work in your browser.

Post by rmorey » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 12:26 AM UTC

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if they named themselves DeepMind WaveNet Blockchain, they could have acquired Googlebet* by now. * that's how i call google/alphabet when it doesn't matter which side of the tax-avoiding entity i am referring to.

goophabet?

Post by ollin » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

technics256 wrote: post #71

ollin wrote: post #31

Does anyone have a GitHub project for epub -> mp3 using this service yet (for automatic audiobook generation)? May make it myself if I have time but curious if anyone already has set it up. EDIT : this is almost exactly their sample application ( https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/t... ). Was able to get it working with epubs using pypandoc within the hour. Now just need to make it upload to O…

Is your code on github?

Post by ghaff » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 12:59 AM UTC

remir wrote: post #75

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I don't know. They're good but they still sound robotic. For me, they work for applications where I sort of expect/accept that I'll get computer-generated speech anyway. But I wouldn't use them as a general substitute for a human speaking, even someone like me who doesn't exactly have a radio voice.

It's getting more and more human sounding. Take a look at this research (also from Google): https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy...

Post by paulryanrogers » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

PostOnce wrote: post #74

Am I wrong in thinking that the cost of generating (realistic-sounding, learned-model) speech on commodity hardware will be near-zero soon, largely negating the value of a SaaS? I've been waiting a long time for decent sounding open source TTS software for narrating books to me, and now with deep learning it's either here or very near here, and the hardware is going to keep getting more performant at the same price.…