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Useful resource for learning how speech synthesis works
From 1 comment
That is a valid criticism, but this is still a functional resource. I did attempt to create a TTS system that was fully local to the website and you can try it here:…
westcort on HN
Objections
Site mostly wraps the browser's built-in speech API, so it is not much of a project
From 1 comment
If you view source, you'll notice the site isn't really doing anything. It's been around since 2013 in Chrome, so I'm actually surprised it's the first time I've seen it. Here's…
ksaj on HN
Questions
Where to find smaller phoneme sets for concatenative TTS
From 1 comment
I didn't know that Raspberry Pi had phonemes built in. I actually recorded the phonemes from my own voice. Is there somewhere I can download smaller phonemes? One of my long-term…
westcort on HN
Alternatives named
eSpeak
From 1 comment
That wasn't really meant to be a criticism. I was surprised which is why I pointed it out. I spent quite some time fussing about with software like Mbrola, eSpeak and a bunch of…
ksaj on HN
Mbrola
From 1 comment
That wasn't really meant to be a criticism. I was surprised which is why I pointed it out. I spent quite some time fussing about with software like Mbrola, eSpeak and a bunch of…
ksaj on HN
SAM (Software Automatic Mouth)
From 1 comment
That wasn't really meant to be a criticism. I was surprised which is why I pointed it out. I spent quite some time fussing about with software like Mbrola, eSpeak and a bunch of…
ksaj on HN