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Re:Show HN: Cloning the Voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan a... by waterlesscloud on Friday May 15, 2015 @07:42AM (#9549968)
Pretty cool. Rough and fuzzy around the edges, some of the usual speech synthesis cadence issues. Any insight into the techniques you're using to do this?
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Re:Show HN: Cloning the Voices of Alan Rickman, Carl Sagan a... by voiceclonr on Friday May 15, 2015 @07:48AM (#9549990)
This uses http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp (HMM-based Speech Synthesis System). Yes, it is expected to be robotic sounding since real audio streams are not used during synthesis. Some improvements can be made I believe (larger training set and some post processing) - but don't think it will change dramatically. Thanks for trying.
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