Resumen de Google's new voice is as good as your own
When machines speak, they sound stilted, robotic and mechanical--but they are getting better. Google's latest text-to-speech system, called Tacotron 2, generates sounds entirely from scratch. The search giant claims the results are as good as those built using professional voice artists. Most previous systems produce speech by assembling human-recorded vocal sounds into words and sentences. In comparison, Tacotron 2 was trained on more than 24 hours of human speech and corresponding transcripts, and could then generate completely new audio of phrases from a given text even if it had never seen some of the words before.
