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  • [OT] Is this a computer-generated voice?

    From Pamela@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 13:51:33 2023
    This page has an audio version. Is it autogenerated?

    The voice sounds robotic but some audio pronunciations (such as of
    acronyms and headings) are more accurate than I would expect from
    autogenerated speech although not perfect.

    https://euobserver.com/migration/156740

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Pamela on Sun Feb 26 14:22:44 2023
    Pamela wrote:

    This page has an audio version. Is it autogenerated?

    Sounds like it, better than many others though.

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  • From Woody@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sun Feb 26 14:53:32 2023
    On Sun 26/02/2023 14:22, Andy Burns wrote:
    Pamela wrote:

    This page has an audio version. Is it autogenerated?

    Sounds like it, better than many others though.



    It would be even more clever if it pronounced Menton correctly, i.e.
    something like Mohn-tohn rather than Men-tun!

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Pamela on Sun Feb 26 15:34:56 2023
    Try this, its one I did earlier in true Blue Peter Tradition.
    This is one of the Microsoft Edge voices. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs77zbyeml2shwy/Prunus-908-Ram-stick-player-and-radio-instructions-Feb-23.mp3?dl=1



    Not inspiring as a file, but I had it ready.
    Brian


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    "Pamela" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    This page has an audio version. Is it autogenerated?

    The voice sounds robotic but some audio pronunciations (such as of
    acronyms and headings) are more accurate than I would expect from autogenerated speech although not perfect.

    https://euobserver.com/migration/156740

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Sun Feb 26 15:42:37 2023
    Brian Gaff wrote:

    Not inspiring as a file, but I had it ready.

    The cadence is off in parts.

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  • From Max Demian@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Sun Feb 26 18:34:27 2023
    On 26/02/2023 15:34, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Try this, its one I did earlier in true Blue Peter Tradition.
    This is one of the Microsoft Edge voices. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs77zbyeml2shwy/Prunus-908-Ram-stick-player-and-radio-instructions-Feb-23.mp3?dl=1

    Sounds like a bored human who doesn't really understand (or care) what
    she is saying.

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Max Demian on Mon Feb 27 10:02:05 2023
    But that is the point. The one on that page sounds bored as well. I think we have a long way to go before we can get them to read audio books with true feelings. They can get the intonation by reading ahead to some extent, but
    they are never that inspiring.
    Brian

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    On 26/02/2023 15:34, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Try this, its one I did earlier in true Blue Peter Tradition.
    This is one of the Microsoft Edge voices.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs77zbyeml2shwy/Prunus-908-Ram-stick-player-and-radio-instructions-Feb-23.mp3?dl=1

    Sounds like a bored human who doesn't really understand (or care) what she
    is saying.

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Mon Feb 27 14:12:47 2023
    "Brian Gaff" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:tthv2u$383tc$[email protected]...
    But that is the point. The one on that page sounds bored as well. I think
    we have a long way to go before we can get them to read audio books with
    true feelings. They can get the intonation by reading ahead to some
    extent, but they are never that inspiring.

    Yes. The quality of the voice is damn good, compared with the likes of
    Stephen Hawking's famous robotic voice, but the intonation, the rise and
    fall in tone and the emphasis on the correct words is not quite right. Very close, but definitely voice synthesis. Alexa's voice is slightly better:
    "she" seems to get emphasis and tonal variations better, but still clearly
    not a human.

    It's hard to get one's brain around the fact that these voices are
    completely synthesised from phonemes, and are not made up of a real voice saying all the standard words which are then pasted together in the right order.

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