I keep the space station live feed from ustream.tv on one of my monitors at work as a sort of peaceful distraction. When I turned on the feed today, the earth was passing from left to right on my monitor. However, for the last three months, it had been passing from right to left. The bit of the space station that can be seen in the feed is still in the same spot though, so I'm left to wonder: did they adjust... Source: over 2 years ago

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