I periodically look for new versions and, while the examples sound better, they fall down really hard on other text.
Demo: https://youtu.be/hBmhDf8cl0k
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I'd really encourage you to invest some time into SEO and promotion of your project.
I spent a bunch of time recently looking for exactly this: TTS, offline, an Open Source licence, and with "decent"/"natural" sounding default voices.
The "best" I ended up finding was `espeak-ng` but, really, the "natural"-ness is barely comparable to what Larynx seems to produce--based on a quick listen to the demos here: https://rhasspy.github.io/larynx/#en-us
On first impressions at least, Larynx definitely seems to be a project that desires a higher profile in this space.
Thanks for sharing the project here, I'll be interested to take a deeper look when I circle back to my side-side project that could benefit from it. :)
(BTW I didn't watch/listen to the YT video all the way through yet but if the narration is generated by Larynx (which it seemed it might be?) it's definitely worth stating that up front.)
Oh, also, really appreciate that there's multiple options for non-male voices too which is something that seems to be sorely lacking in similar projects.
Google gives 1 million characters per month free which I don't often go over, but this will be really useful for when I do
I don't want to be unappreciative, it's amazing that this is possible much less free, but when you spend hours listening to it every day, the cracking and warbling do get old. I think there are better models I've heard snippets of but the truly amazing thing about google's is how robust it is to very weird words
(When I tried all the public cloud offering's, IBM's was the marginally nicest AFAICT but it was the most expensive with least free quota)
Dictation is writing down what someone is saying.
This is software that says what someone writes down.
I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages.
The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to realise ... one of those "the tech has passed an inflection point" moments
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
Looks great but FYI there's a long-standing healthcare company that's been in business for over a decade with various speech products/features named "Vocera"[0]. I'm not a lawyer but they have many trademarks on Vocera and the standard is generally "likely to cause confusion". You're probably well in that territory with a speech product that sounds almost identical and is one letter off. When Googling "voicera" Google replaces/suggests "Vocera". There's a pretty decent chance you'll be hearing from them.
I noticed AWS blogs all have this feature in recent times which is cool.
However OS makers can catch up and threaten the business model of this software by integrating a better TTS.
A question - in the sample dictation on the site, it adds a voice annotation for "features" and "pricing categories". These weren't encoded in the HTML. How does it figure that?
From a website vistor's perspective: I think an interesting direction would be to offer an asynchronous option (podcast?) for all converted content on a site. I think one reason people want to listen to something rather read is because of the additional freedom that you get when you don't have to pay attention to a screen - eg, you could be walking instead.
That said, I'm not sure what your sell to website owners is. "Engagement" is kind of a vague benefit, why would they want to use this service? What problem is it solving? It's not clear from your landing page why anyone would bother to use this - which (just my opinion) is the #1 problem you need to solve.
I made something similar (https://blogreader.com.au) a while back from the other side - where website readers can choose which blogs they want to listen to. There's also something similar to my site offered by Pocket for free (although I don't like their AI voice very much personally).
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