'Flirty' New Text-to-Speech Software Actually Pretty Impressive
damn_nation_inc Published 02/15/2022
Can't wait until this gets used to trick me into a call about my car's extended warranty.
The world of computer-generated voices has come a long way since I was a kid. Those early prototypes of text-to-speech programs were extremely clunky and sounded very much like a robot. Since then, we've been able to get a little bit more advanced and create voices with a few different inflections so that they sound a little bit more natural with programs like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant. TikTok also recently added some new voice types including a truly disturbing one that sounds like an impatient New York City construction worker.
A company called Sonantic is now working to create truly realistic-sounding computer-generated voices that can be edited to have a wide range of believable human expressions, and it's kind of wild.
The world of computer-generated voices has come a long way since I was a kid. Those early prototypes of text-to-speech programs were extremely clunky and sounded very much like a robot. Since then, we've been able to get a little bit more advanced and create voices with a few different inflections so that they sound a little bit more natural with programs like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant. TikTok also recently added some new voice types including a truly disturbing one that sounds like an impatient New York City construction worker.
A company called Sonantic is now working to create truly realistic-sounding computer-generated voices that can be edited to have a wide range of believable human expressions, and it's kind of wild.
Here's a little more information on how the software actually works:
The software has actually been used extensively in gaming by Obsidian Studios, the creative force behind the wildly popular 'Outer Worlds' game.
The software has actually been used extensively in gaming by Obsidian Studios, the creative force behind the wildly popular 'Outer Worlds' game.
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