Re:Project Common Voice
by ancarda on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:15AM
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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 to actually use and that voice isn't available for Linux so I only have it installed on my MacBook.
I guess a lot of developers at e.g. Apple live in CA so Siri is probably influenced by that.
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 to actually use and that voice isn't available for Linux so I only have it installed on my MacBook.
I guess a lot of developers at e.g. Apple live in CA so Siri is probably influenced by that.