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What's a good TTS cloud service that has anything even close to these voices. I looked at the Google and Amazon ones and was pretty disappointed.

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Did you ... read ... what was written in the linked page?

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> Microsoft Research Asia & Microsoft Azure Speech

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-voices...

Just because they release a research paper doesn't mean it's out in production or if this model will even be economical to run in production for them.

Thank you! Thought it was just a research paper and they weren't in production yet. Samples on that blog post sound really good

I played with demos of various cloud providers, a lot of it comes down to difference of opinion it seems as I've had people exclaim on here something was fantastic that sounded like a robot.

My opinion is Microsoft's Azure TTS is the best and IBM's Watson TTS was a pretty close second. I remember finding Google's disappointing as well.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

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