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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072944.

For a service claiming to be "lifelike", Joey has totally phrased that question as a statement.

I agree, it doesn't sound "lifelike" at all to me. Compared to WaveNet[1] it's day and night.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

The "babbling" samples here are really fun. Would make for a great "Sims" language.

I actually found that pretty unsettling to listen to, and verging on creepy. I felt like I was listening to a computer trying to pretend to be human.

Wow, that was actually impressive. A few of those were hard to distiguish from human speakers. I love how they included breathing and mouth-sounds as well, really brings it to life.

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