Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

Post by grzm » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 10:58 PM UTC

catshirt wrote: post #100

BoorishBears wrote: post #98

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How can you tell?

i don't get the response- my comment does not have 98 votes- thought it was some reference i didn't get, or something.

Post by yoyo_paolo » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 5:06 AM UTC

ckluis wrote: post #14

sagivo wrote: post #8

#offtopic a bit but i wonder if anyone knows a good api for the other-way around -> speech to text

Shoot - I'd love an API you pass in txt in one language and get multiple languages back in txt and speech.

Post by IshKebab » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 10:51 AM UTC

SamBam wrote: post #78

IshKebab wrote: post #43

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Sooo cynical. This is way better than most TTS systems, including Google's. The only one I've ever heard that is better is DeepWave, and that suffers from lots of background noise.

Seriously? Compare Polly's English samples (particularly #2) in the original article with the Google's WaveNet samples: Polly 1: https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Polly/HelloEnglis... Polly 2: https://d0.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Polly/HelloEnglis... WaveNet 1: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/pixie/us-engli... WaveNet 2: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/pixie/us-engli... Ther…