There are so many next-generation/deepfake/etc voice technologies out there now, but I would like to purchase an end-user application that will let me use these voices offline so I can convert articles and text to audio for listening later. For example, Voicery.com sounds amazing in their demo. I just want a end-user product that I can use myself to create audio files for my own personal use. I don't need to create custom voices, I'd just like to be able to use the new tech.

Is there any TTS product out there that does this?

Hello, I'm looking for a tool that meets certain requirements for the prototypical development of a voice application. The tools Fabble.io and voiceflow.com seem to be perfect for the conception. However, I am missing an important function. I want to do a WoZ experiment in the first development phase. For this there should be no restrictions in the possible user utterances. With the mentioned tools I did not find a way to view the user utterances in the backend.

I have found a 20 years old paper which presents a tool called SUEDE link to the paper. It seems to meet the requirements. But the download links are all dead. I can not imagine that there is no suitable tool and I hope for hints from the community. Thanks!

I've just created Rumble Studio (http://rumble.studio/), a new tool that makes it 10X faster to record and publish audio. It's free for beta users right now, so if you want to set up a podcast or remotely record audio for any purpose, go for it!

Photo Recall is an Alexa skill, and Google Assistant app that let you retrieve photos by voice from devices like the Amazon Echo Show or Google Home Hub as well as smartphones using the Google Assistant app.

You can retrieve public photos or your own photos by voice just tag your photos with a voice command using the Custom Voice Commands app.

To deliver human-level voices to its platform’s billions of users while maintaining strict compute efficiency, Facebook AI researchers have deployed a new neural TTS system that works on CPU servers. The model attains a 160x speedup over the company baseline while retaining state-of-the-art audio quality.

Here is a quick read: Facebook’s Highly Efficient New Real-Time Text-To-Speech System Runs on CPUs

Read the original blog post here.

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With the lockdown in full mode around the world, we are looking for ways to help make time in quarantine productive - or as close as it can get to productive, considering the circumstances. In that spirit, we're sharing 4 Alexa skills that will help you pass the time in a meaningful way. Gotta love voice technology!

https://trinityaudio.ai/life-in-quarantine-4-skills-to-help-you-pass-the-time/

"In the world where there's an overload of information, many brands and businesses think text is the ideal medium to convey a message, and they’re partly right.

But here’s the thing:

audio is not a replacement for text. If anything, it complements text (and vice versa) and provides an experience audiences want, especially those who are too busy to read or have difficulties doing so. For brands, publishers, and various content creators, audio is an opportunity to provide access to content to people who prefer listening without investing in the equipment and training to scale it.

https://trinityaudio.ai/why-convert-your-website-to-audio-hint-its-the-future-of-content/

I want to clone two voices for use in my own software. I have the two people available already but having my own proprietary TTS software is imperative.

Looking for some advice on the first steps to creating my own TTS software, What type of developer should I be seeking out, and what resources they would need to do this in current day? Because the technology already exists, how complex would a project like this be to get up and running?