Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech by probably_wrong on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:10AM (#13123561)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072944.

For a service claiming to be "lifelike", Joey has totally phrased that question as a statement.

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Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech by jicks on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:16AM (#13123621)

I agree, it doesn't sound "lifelike" at all to me. Compared to WaveNet[1] it's day and night.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

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Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech by Vinkekatten on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:27AM (#13123718)

Wow, that was actually impressive. A few of those were hard to distiguish from human speakers. I love how they included breathing and mouth-sounds as well, really brings it to life.

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Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech by j2kun on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:26AM (#13123703)

The "babbling" samples here are really fun. Would make for a great "Sims" language.

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Re:Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech by justusthane on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @02:21PM (#13125337)

I actually found that pretty unsettling to listen to, and verging on creepy. I felt like I was listening to a computer trying to pretend to be human.

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