Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

Re:Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your... by nameoda on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:13PM (#23854138)

The audio at the top of the page, marked "Voiced by Amazon Polly" has so much dissonance - they've inserted fake sounds to seem as if the speaker is drawing breath, which sounds pretty realistic, but the actual enunciation of words is so robotic and fake-sounding :)

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Re:Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your... by djaychela on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:40AM (#23856439)

I spend HOURS editing breaths and other noises out of the VOs I do... and they put them in? Why on earth would you do that? The voice is the unconvincing part - if that was 100% realistic, then the breaths to try to convince the listener that it's real would not be needed!

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Re:Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your... by bigtones on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:16PM (#23854166)

Yes, I immediately noticed that when I started listening too. You can hear him inhale at the start of a paragraph which is kind of freaky, because his voice is super-robotic.

Amazon Polly is in the uncanny valley of text to speech now.

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