Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
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#2On my machine the demo page doesn't work at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
I tried to get Google to fix this a long time ago and it seemed to work for a while after being offline for weeks.
Re: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
#3Anyone knows how this compare to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
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#5 I'd love to read what this page has to say, but somehow it managed to load with some click-grabbing Gawker-type theme? Half expecting a "100 Surprising Cloud Facts, And Number 12 Will Shock You" link to appear in that inexcusable waste of space along the bottom. https://i.imgur.com/Uk1udNo.jpg
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#6Speech-to-text is great. I'm using it to transcribe voicemails in a product I'm building.
Re: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
#7On my machine the demo page doesn't work at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ I tried to get Google to fix this a long time ago and it seemed to work for a while after being offline for weeks.
Works for me. Whats your machine like?
Re: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
#8On my machine the demo page doesn't work at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ I tried to get Google to fix this a long time ago and it seemed to work for a while after being offline for weeks.
Works for me. Whats your machine like?
Sadly it is like this:
OSX 10.13
Model Name: Mac mini Model Identifier: Macmini7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i5 Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 16 GB
Re: Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
#9On my machine the demo page doesn't work at https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ I tried to get Google to fix this a long time ago and it seemed to work for a while after being offline for weeks.
It works very intermittently for me (Chrome on Windows, with plenty of RAM and CPU).
When I click the "speak" button, it makes a network request (as shown in the Chrome devtools) and immediately gets back a response that looks big enough to be an audio blob.
But most of the time, instead of actually playing the audio, it just sits there with a spinner for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes before giving up, with no errors in the console.
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#10Google's speech-to-text is powerful, but I'd be pretty skeptical about tying a project to it given how services like Maps have been handled recently. There are companies like Mozilla trying to build more open solutions, but to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) any pre-trained services Mozilla offers will also still involve you connecting to their servers.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I just can't imagine using a speech-to-text system for anything serious that I can't self-host. It feels like we've just seen example and example over and over again why this is a bad idea -- to the point that when I hear a company like Google talk about a locked-down cloud platform as "making AI accessible to everyone" it feels almost dishonest.
Especially once we start talking about text-to-speech. We can already do a lot of that locally - we should be pretty hesitant about coupling new text-to-speech techniques to strategies that require us to move logic away from local devices onto the cloud.