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

📋 This means I should have prepared a transcript of the audio I've included above. Have you ever typed up your own transcript? It takes a good amount of effort and time, and a helpful transcription app, that my clients would probably not pay for. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

To start, I have a $20/ yr "manual" transcription license for Transcribe by Wreally. Once I saw that other folks were interested in transcripts too, I set up an automatic transcription for the first episode - it tends to work alright, but also needs some manual revising and editing after it finishes processing. Source: about 3 years ago

This is the main reason we still have a local-only mode in our transcription web app [1]. We play the audio/video file directly from the user’s computer, and we use local storage to store typed text in users’ computers. This way no transcription data leaves users’ computers. We’ve been working on it for over a decade and we did add machine transcription recently, but I still find a surprising number of users use... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago