My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I created an Anki Deck with all of the words from Mini Kore and 300+ Mini Kore sentences from the various documents on minilanguage.com. The deck includes audio for all words and sentences. Audio was generated using the Google Text-to-Speech API. The deck can be found here:. Source: about 1 year ago

Under the hood, it is powered by: - Remotion - Google TTS - OpenAI. Source: about 1 year ago

Text-to-Speech: Lifelike Speech Synthesis  |  Google Cloud. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks! The synth is Dreamtonics' Synthesizer V, using the SOLARIA voice database from Eclipsed Sounds. What really sold it to me was listening to some beautifully crafted covers from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0lcVr9ugI), which was quite interesting and somewhat pleasant sounding for spoken word vocals, but didn't really have the range or expressiveness I was looking for. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Are you located in Canada? I am located in Canada and I had the same issue the a couple days ago; turns out the website I was trying to log into was "audible.com" instead of "audible.ca"- so I went to "audible.ca" instead of "audible.com", logged in, and that fixed it. Source: 7 months ago

Well, I got a new phone and I when I log in with my email, it simply wont show me my account stats or the 62 books I have in my library. I have checked and it is set to the right marketplace, audible.com ... Source: 7 months ago

I wanted to see what these virtual voice books were and couldn't find anything. It seems like Canada like everything else (sales, promos, discounts etc) was overlooked and we haven't gotten any of these (that I've seen). That being said, good this sounds horrible. I went on my old audible.com account to find these virtual voice books and.... yeah, no. Source: 7 months ago

Yep. Although all the kindle books I bought on amazon.ca are whispersync compatible with my audiobook wishlist on my no longer active audible.com account. If I'm willing to pay the price listed + conversion to Canadian amount which makes the book more expensive. Whatever 7.49$ USD converted to CND is. That's why I moved my books to the Canadian marketplace so I could stop paying 14.95$ USD converted into CND which... Source: 7 months ago

Despite all the technical stuff, my aim is always to make it sound as though we're sitting in front of that fire and you're being told a story. One of the best compliments I can receive is, "I forgot that I was being read to", or "he didn't get in the way of the story", which is an actual comment from an audible.com listener. Source: 7 months ago