[HN Gopher] Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API
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       Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API
        
       Author : jazz3020
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-09-27 19:10 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (unrealspeech.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (unrealspeech.com)
        
       | aragonite wrote:
       | Very impressive. I tested it with:                 In Sioux City
       | the Taoiseach parked his coupe by the quay overlooking a fjord.
       | Nearby, a bugle played an octave, children savored sherbet and
       | quinoa with acai, and an artisan sold bagels next to ancient-
       | inspired rouge.
       | 
       | And it got most of the (irregularly spelt) words pronounced
       | correctly except for 'quinoa' and 'acai'.
       | 
       | Just for fun, I also tested some tongue twisters. For some
       | reason, I find it psychologically very difficult to listen to
       | perfectly spoken tongue twisters -- almost as if some sort of
       | nail on chalkboard effect is going on!                 The sixth
       | sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick                 She sells sea-
       | shells by the sea-shore.       The shells she sells are sea-
       | shells, I'm sure.       For if she sells sea-shells by the sea-
       | shore       Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
        
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