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

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Post by gene1974 » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 1:50 PM UTC

bufferoverflow wrote: post #11

I wish they had some beautiful voices, not some of the most generic-sounding men and women.

This is MY VOICE as rendered by lyrebird.ai - https://lyrebird.ai/g/hFj87pbl - So, tech is out there trying to replicate the actual CHARACTER of individual human voices.

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

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Post by gene1974 » Wed, Apr 04, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #70

bufferoverflow wrote: post #11

I wish they had some beautiful voices, not some of the most generic-sounding men and women.

They're working on it! Check out the samples here: https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy... The last set is specifically interesting for your wish.

Meryl Streep should be worried right about now! (I heard that last set of renders... whoa!)

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