From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: blinux-list at redhat.com (Linux for blind general discussion) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:42:25 +0000 Subject: Formatting - was Would you be interested in having natural sounding TTS voices by Readspeaker on Linux? demo link included In-Reply-To: <161870350119.8.17896736538043458897.5969450@slmail.me> References: <161866688954.6.12074603936546144678.5956995@simplelogin.co> <161870350119.8.17896736538043458897.5969450@slmail.me> Message-ID: List-Id: 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.