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0 pointsplanetsprite3y ago0 comments

The potential is 100x more with vocal synthesis imo. No need to make programmatic mad-libs style formats. Complete freedom, even though the quality isn't optimal.

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holdenc1373y ago

Totally agree. I think we're probably only a year or so off TTS that can put some proper intonation into a sentence - hopefully then they'll be indistiguishable from live speech.

I've tried to listen to books with today's TTS and it soon becomes really grating (To my ears at least). It only needs the tinyest slip every few sentences and you can't listen any more.

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0 pointsplanetsprite3y ago0 comments

The potential is 100x more with vocal synthesis imo. No need to make programmatic mad-libs style formats. Complete freedom, even though the quality isn't optimal.

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holdenc1373y ago

Totally agree. I think we're probably only a year or so off TTS that can put some proper intonation into a sentence - hopefully then they'll be indistiguishable from live speech.

I've tried to listen to books with today's TTS and it soon becomes really grating (To my ears at least). It only needs the tinyest slip every few sentences and you can't listen any more.

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