Amazon's doesn't care about Mturk, they have their own AI that will eventually automate all their work too https://aws.amazon.com/lex/. Source: about 1 year ago

Amazon Lex, AWS's natural language conversational AI service. With Amazon Connect, it seamlessly leverages Amazon Transcribe to understand what is being said (speech-to-text), and Amazon Polly to provide the verbal response (text-to-speech). We aren't really using the Natural Language powers of Lex, but it has other uses for us:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

AWS has three high-quality tools: Amazon Lex, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon SageMaker. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Introducing DTMF slot settings within Amazon Lex.Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots ("chatbots"), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is excited to launch DTMF-only slot settings and configurable session attributes within the Lex console. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

The text processing is a bit more interesting, as we have the original text and some insights into the content and sentiment, but we need a response. So for this application Amazon Lex has been configured to do this. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Yes! I'm currently using https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, so it isn't especially fun to listen to though. Additionally, since I'm streaming the LLM response, it won't take long to get your reply. Since it does it a chunk at a time, there's occasionally only parts of words that are said momentarily. Also of course depends on what model you use or what the context size is for how long you need to wait. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

You might try espeak or - for something that looks more feature-rich - festival. Source: about 1 year ago

Hey! I’m mute too and I’ve been wanting to stream. So far I’ve decided on using eSpeak https://espeak.sourceforge.net/, a text-to-speech app for PC that allows commercial usage. You might also be able to find online text-to-speech that allows commercial usage, it just might take awhile to find. Depending on the time of content you make you could also dedicate part of your layout to a spot you could type in and... Source: over 1 year ago

Can someone point to a good open source alternative for vocaloid? I know of Sinsy [0] but I couldn't get it working. Ecantorix [1] is very old and rudimentary (it uses espeak underneath [2]). Searching just now I see OpenUtau [3] but I have no experience with it. Seems crazy there isn't a good FOSS solution for this. [0] http://www.sinsy.jp/ [1] https://github.com/divVerent/ecantorix [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The closest that I know of is espeak, https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ . It certainly doesn't cover all of the IPA though. Source: over 1 year ago