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Could they use the different voices to generate unique, natural-sounding voices for text-to-speech?
I really hope so. All the text-to-speech software I've used has a generic sounding accent for the country (your choices are typically American, Australian, British, Canadian) but there's a lot more accents out there. The software isn't bad - it sounds realistic - but I wish it sounded more how I would like it to. There's some software, e.g. Cepstral Dallas - https://www.cepstral.com/en/demos but it sounds too robotic…
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