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Old 04-10-2009, 11:23 AM   #26
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It will probably take a long time to get to that point. I hesitate to guess how long a time. But, given the past decade's improvements in TTS technology, and the degree to which the stuff in the labs is better than what's on the street, I'd predict that we'll get to at least the first of those two situtations... eventually.
I think it'll be a heck of a long time until we reach the stage where a TTS system can do what a good audiobook performer does - use a different "voice" for each character in the book, and make the voice "fit" the character.

We probably will reach the stage where TTS can read a book in a "neutral" manner, in a realistic sounding voice, but the days when it was sufficient for a decent audiobook to consist of simply that are long past.
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