[HN Gopher] Another Text to Speech API
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       Another Text to Speech API
        
       Author : vigneshv59
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-09-25 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.fluxon.ai)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.fluxon.ai)
        
       | sterlind wrote:
       | the prosody seems a little robotic, and kind of jarring. maybe
       | I'm spoiled by Bark, even in its rough and slow state, but is
       | this really that much of a step up from Tacotron2?
        
       | splatzone wrote:
       | Interesting but there's a weird pause before the word 'danced' in
       | each demo? Sounds unnatural
        
       | g_xing wrote:
       | The price is lower than the competitors... I wonder how good it
       | actually is though. Guessing they just sacrifice quality
        
       | willsmith72 wrote:
       | maybe it's just me but the play buttons take forever to become
       | clickable
        
         | vmatsiiako wrote:
         | works well for me
        
           | willsmith72 wrote:
           | seems fixed now
        
       | pruthvishetty wrote:
       | Which is the best one, so far? Eleven labs? OpenAI apparently has
       | something in the works to (going by today's Spotify podcast
       | updates).
        
         | airstrike wrote:
         | I'm also curious. A review of what's state-of-the-art today
         | would be a great idea for a blog post. Just don't post it on
         | medium.com please
        
         | robga wrote:
         | Still Azure Speech in my experience.
        
           | radicalriddler wrote:
           | ElevenLabs is better quality wise, but it's vastly more
           | expensive. Azure Speech hits a really good price:quality
           | ratio.
        
         | smusamashah wrote:
         | Google Soundstorm had the best demo so far. It takes few
         | seconds of original audio and continues it with the same
         | voices. Just hearing those examples you wont figure out where
         | original finished and generated one started.
        
       | willsmith72 wrote:
       | What are the Ts&Cs when it comes to cloning voices?
        
       | vigneshv59 wrote:
       | All these TTS services look cool but I don't know how any of them
       | are different from each other...
        
       | akshayys wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | fuddle wrote:
       | "Ultrarealistic AI Voice Generator" - I initially read the title
       | as "Unrealistic AI Voice Generator". I'd suggest adding a space
       | to "Ultrarealistic".
        
         | airstrike wrote:
         | I also read the same thing
        
         | stavros wrote:
         | A hyphen, please.
        
       | BeetleB wrote:
       | Frankly, these don't sound any better than Google Cloud's TTS,
       | and is orders of magnitude more expensive.
        
         | ameliaquining wrote:
         | I think the killer feature here is supposed to be voice
         | cloning, which IIUC Google Cloud offers only as a custom
         | enterprise thing that takes weeks (which suggests that it's not
         | fully automated).
        
       | mynegation wrote:
       | Every time I see one of those, as a big fan of TV crime dramas, I
       | cannot help but think that voice recordings as proof are going to
       | be a thing in the past very soon.
        
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