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by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 378 days ago
With Italian, it starts reading the text with an absolutely comical American accent, but then about 10-20 words in it gradually snaps into a natural Italian pronunciation and it sounds fantastic from that point on. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, but it sounds like it starts with an en-us baseline and then somehow zones in on the one you specified. Using Alice.
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the Italian example with mixed languages is especially bad: the Italian, German Japanese and Arabic all have very very heavy english accents.

The "dramatic movie scene" ends up being comical

I tried Greek and it started speaking nonsense in english

this needs a lot more work to be sold