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		aaron695 on Dec 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked ... Text to speech. It's the next billion industry. I wish people would stop wasting time on AI and speech recognition and work on that, it's the next step. ( AI obviously might be needed for 'deep fakes' of good speech output, we need focus on AI that gives us achievable returns, in steps )

jdsalaro on Dec 29, 2020 [–]

What, specifically, are you lacking wrt text to speech?

gfxgirl on Dec 29, 2020 | [–]

I'll consider text to speech done when I can give it a novel and have it sound like the best voice actor audiobook performance.

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