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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
And it's hard disagree from me. The old TTS of 20-30 years ago is awful in comparison. Listen to the Microsoft SAM SAPI5 example on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros...-speech_voices. That's what XP was doing. It's not good compared to the more modern Google Android TTS and way way worse than the "AI" approaches. |
No, that's not what XP was doing. It was what one of the things that MS was doing. I don't need random examples from Wikipedia either. I have a still working XP laptop last re-installed June 2002 and a "clone" of it in a VM on Linux. I actually have a USB audio adaptor and PW3. I actually have a Kindle DXG and Kindle gen3 keyboard.
The advances are marginal. There are several different aspects and so-called Neural Networks / AI don't do much more than the "voice creation". There is zero understanding and the huge overhead of a Neural Net is a brute force approach to issues like lead as in dog or boss and lead as in lining, sinker etc.
*TTS is usable as an accessibility tool, but not as a replacement for a human narrator of Audio books*. At a pinch I can use TTS using Pocketbook on Android. It's certainly the best I've had yet. The offering Google has to "automate" audiobook production for sale is only marginally better for USA standard English texts and no better for anything else. Compare the Hobbit with it and Android phone, Kindle DXG and best XP with a trained human narrator!
Selling audiobooks
automatically generated is a kind of fraud. You can do nearly as well on your own phone. It's greed.