My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. - Source: Hacker News / 2 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

For reference, my last book was called Happy City. Source: over 2 years ago

This guy's work might appeal to you: https://thehappycity.com/the-book/. Source: over 2 years ago

> what me and perhaps many other Europeans think about the American suburb is simply not apparent to a lot of Americans. I share this sentiment a lot. Especially given my 30+ years growing up and living in Italy, and 8+ years in the San Francisco Bay Area. I liked how this article provided clear examples of what's different, and what's important, about a city. A great book I'd recommend is Happy City, by Charles... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago