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

To find your House rep, use this website and scroll down to the "State" section. Source: over 1 year ago

I recommend you call your local representatives (find them here), specifically your state senator, and tell them to support Bill S182. Source: over 1 year ago

If you give up on recycling, it's 100% guaranteed that your stuff won't be recycled. So keep at it, spend a few minutes on your trash haulers website to understand what they want - AND DON'T WANT in their recycling bins, join a local environmental group and work to improve the systems we have in place. Contact your elected officials every year. Source: over 1 year ago

Contact your representatives to let them know where you stand on these issues. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you’re just now realizing that there is a difference between the idiots who represent TX in DC and the ones who do it in Austin, it’s time to learn: https://whoaremyrepresentatives.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago