whaleross@lemmy.world
on 23 Apr 18:30
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Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:
Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.
Just don’t. Everybody hates it.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 23 Apr 18:31
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As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.
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Some preemptive advice if you’re in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:
Do not ever use any “humanisation” tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.
Just don’t. Everybody hates it.
As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.