Amazing how far text to speech has come...

[amirm]

Watch this video:

Sounds like a professional voiceover actor is narrating. Let it go for a while though and it makes very obvious pronunciation mistakes like pronouncing Lion as Leon. For that reason, I think it is computer generated. If so, other than handful of mispronunciations , it is incredible how lifelike it is.

 

[Rednaxela]

Amazing.

In this talk Léonie Watson briefly takes her audience through the evolution of text to speech with sound clips.

As a blind person even she admits that with the latest iterations she sometimes struggles to tell the fake from the real.


And here’s a fully generated podcast.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1841594123381571863

Incredible how quick one forgets that the conversations in it never took place.

 

[Petrushka]

In 20 years you will be able to have anything read or sung by anyone. Royalties paid like streaming services.

 

[Tom C]

Watch this video:

Sounds like a professional voiceover actor is narrating. Let it go for a while though and it makes very obvious pronunciation mistakes like pronouncing Lion as Leon. For that reason, I think it is computer generated. If so, other than handful of mispronunciations , it is incredible how lifelike it is.

That was a beautiful story Amir. Thank you.