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Okay can I ask a question that has been bothering me for a long time? Why do seemingly all these text-to-speech programs attempt to produce spoken voice based solely on raw text ? Why don't they consume a MIDI-like text-markup language where you can write phonetic pronunciations along with markup about the emotion, volume, speed, etc.? I feel like this is a huge unnecessary roadblock holding back this kind of technol…
Okay can I ask a question that has been bothering me for a long time? Why do seemingly all these text-to-speech programs attempt to produce spoken voice based solely on raw text ? Why don't they consume a MIDI-like text-markup language where you can write phonetic pronunciations along with markup about the emotion, volume, speed, etc.? I feel like this is a huge unnecessary roadblock holding back this kind of technol…
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> what are the alternatives that I can run locally ...you will be disappointed by the answers to that question for the foreseeable future.
I'm the opposite of disappointed. The amount of public pretrained models that have been popping up recently is crazy.
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> what are the alternatives that I can run locally ...you will be disappointed by the answers to that question for the foreseeable future.
I'm the opposite of disappointed. The amount of public pretrained models that have been popping up recently is crazy.
Just because there is a new toy doesn’t mean capitalism gave up.
It would have been interesting how they perform in comparison. The fact you are able to adjust the voices is even one of their selling points. I really wonder why they haven't done that
Okay can I ask a question that has been bothering me for a long time? Why do seemingly all these text-to-speech programs attempt to produce spoken voice based solely on raw text ? Why don't they consume a MIDI-like text-markup language where you can write phonetic pronunciations along with markup about the emotion, volume, speed, etc.? I feel like this is a huge unnecessary roadblock holding back this kind of technol…
I don’t know how many of the solutions offer this, but there is a markup language for TTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Langua... Amazon Polly, (which seems kind of ancient with all these new solutions showing up) has supported SSML for some time. AWS Polly SSML docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html
What are the odds of this kind of thing being open source so I can use it at home. So far, most of the "good" text-to-speech systems are all commercial services https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service... And now one is also a service. I tried using tortoise-tts on my M1. Generating a 7 minute speech took 3 days and, while bette…
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I want to agree, but I searched on their website and found their narration service with 2 full book examples. I listened to the first one for a while and it's the first time an Ai narrator was good enough to keep me listening: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/11707800-alice-s-adventure...
It's noticable worse than the examples in the blog post. I mean, it's good enough for listening, but no better than the competition.
I'm listening to an audiobook whose reader is not as good as some of these voices. At one level, I'm impressed but at an another I'm sadden since we are heading towards uncharted territory. We are looking at a future where we'll have content, video,audio, and text by the truckload. More does not mean better. It just means more blah stuff. I don't think that's the future I'm looking forward to live in.