Formatting - was Would you be interested in having natural sounding TTS voices by Readspeaker on Linux? demo link included

[Linux for blind general discussion]

The problem is that all the so called human voices are spliced together syllables and word fragments taped together. So you get emphasis on the wrong parts of the sentences, pauses in the wrong place, and stuff like that. If they would devote more machine learning time into proper text to speech rendering instead of sensorship and other nonsense, we might get somewhere.

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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:42:25 +0000
Subject: Re: Formatting - was Would you be interested in having natural sounding TTS voices by Readspeaker on Linux? demo link included

> Don't get me wrong, more natural sounding TTS with proper inflection
> would be great, and for me, the holy grail would be TTS capable of
> reading a digitized novel in real-time or reading subtitles on foreign
> media in real-time and be indistinguishable from a human cast
> recording a audio dramatization or dubbed vocal track... but unless
> there's been massive improvements in recent years I'm unaware of, the
> natural voices are at that point where they almost sound human but
> fail in a subtle but unsettling way that's hard to qualify, and until
> we get over that hurdle, I'll take the obviously robotic monotone over
> the almost, but not quite, passes for a human reader voices for daily
> work.
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