Ask HN: What is the state of the art in text to speech?

I don't know what the current state of the art is, but you should take a look at WaveNet if you haven't already - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf

While trying to search for an answer, I came across this list of papers, which has a section on speech synthesis - https://github.com/zzw922cn/awesome-speech-recognition-speec...