Episode 21: Look Who's Talking
What's next in text-to-speech? In December 2017, Google presented a paper that showed a new technological advance in text-to-speech. Until now, Google says, pre-recorded words stitched together doesn’t do the trick. The computerized voice comes off sounding fake. No kidding. The new approach that Google took resulted in Tacotron 2 - a new method of parsing text to speech that can replicate many of the nuances of human speech. Samples of Google's Tacitron 2: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/index.html Online text-to-speech resources used in this episode: https://www.naturalreaders.com https://ttsreader.com/ http://onlinetonegenerator.com/voice-generator.html Click here to listen on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=152797&refid=stpr Click here to listen on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/il/podcast/y-karp-why-not/id1291793305 Click here to listen on TuneIn: https://tunein.com/radio...