Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify voice technology

Re:Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify... by exporectomy on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:27PM (#26785965)

I hope all this data helps us get better free text-to-speech libraries even for English. There's good quality speech synthesis built into OSs like Windows and MacOS and online services from Google, but if you want to include a library in your own local software, the existing open source options are all equally Steven Hawking sounding.

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Re:Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify... by franga2000 on Monday April 12, 2021 @07:30PM (#26786434)

Why include it in your app though? That's inefficient and inconsistent. If your OS has speech support, using that is going to be the best experience for the user. We definitely do need a good FOSS speech library, but it should only be used in a backend for speech-dispatcher and backend/headless apps, not anything user-facing. The OS exist for a reason.

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Re:Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify... by exporectomy on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:34PM (#26815595)

Linux doesn't. It'd be nice if all OS's did but until then, you have to do it in your own app. Why only as a backend? Why not just compiled into applications that use it like any other library?

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Re:Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify... by atat7024 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:49AM (#26791460)

Security.

Privacy.

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Re:Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify... by franga2000 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:56AM (#26791520)

From your OS? If your can't trust your OS, you have bigger problems.

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