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Audio samples – speech synthesis directly from text (google.github.io)
27 points by msq 3090 days ago
3 comments

This has been posted before, maybe even more than once. Can anyone find the link to the previous discussion?
A lot of things get posted multiple times. Best to just include the links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014047

Timing has a lot to do with upvotes.

Definitely looks promising. I'm curious if there are any user-friendly ways to use this or similar WaveNet text to speech? Last time I looked into it, it still required a fair amount of processing power and a library of speech files to generate something on your own.
Serious question, how does this stand out from speech synthesis we have had for years? The only problem that I see that this solves is the different pronunciations of "read".