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Re:Stephanie, open-source virtual assistant built to control... by eloisant on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:35AM (#14531342)
Don't personal assistant use voice synthesis rather than voice acting?
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Re:Stephanie, open-source virtual assistant built to control... by yorwba on Sunday June 11, 2017 @06:45AM (#14531480)
AFAIK, the state of the art in voice synthesis still involves concatenating recorded snippets. Even fancy neural networks need recordings to train on, and will most likely sound similar to the original voice actor.
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