Pilot VS Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

* Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure ( All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software, services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience, profitably, at scale. From the Banking Universe — teams that ingest, normalize, transform, and categorize customer financial data to the Business Universe — teams that ingest our customer revenue and expense information... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

Pilot (https://pilot.com/) | Full-time | Onsite (SF) | Sr Software Engineer (Backend or Full-Stack) Pilot is a Series-C funded, 7-year-old successful startup that partners with other companies to run their financial back office. We let small businesses focus on what they do best -- running their business -- and offload to us the financial back office. We build software that makes this possible: software that... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Curious to get this groups thoughts on fractional hiring. I’ve seen companies like Shiny or Pilot pilot that offer fractional c-suite folks, and I’m curious if anyone here has considered using any of these services - or what stopped you from pursuing a fractional hire? Source: about 1 year ago

They should use it to create even more net positives for society (Like the founders of Pilot did, see here). Most of them at the moment find that helping other 'potential future billionaires' is a pretty good way of doing this (This is what a VC fund is generally, or Angel investors, very different dynamics to zero-sum investors). But I don't think you'll find any that just sit there with it. Besides - the whole... Source: about 1 year ago

The company on which this laptop is locked is Pilot.com. Source: over 1 year ago

My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days 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: 11 months ago

Under the hood, it is powered by: - Remotion - Google TTS - OpenAI. Source: 11 months ago

Text-to-Speech: Lifelike Speech Synthesis  |  Google Cloud. Source: 11 months 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 / 12 months ago