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Comment · 8 years ago
"A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded"
Comment · 8 years ago
It definitely won't of course, and I'm not saying it's right, but people who think that a mass people-to-automaton transition is going to go smoothly without a plan in place for the 'people' may lack perspective.
Comment · 8 years ago
If the Amazon warehouses become fully automated and a big group of people lose their jobs and there's no safety net, the warehouses will be burned to the ground within 24 hours.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sure is: Festival, HTS, Merlin, and a gaggle of wavenet implementations. You'll have to put in some work, it's not turnkey, but you can get some really good results.
Comment · 8 years ago
> It’s developed and maintained by Google. As such, a continued support and development is ensured

Yes. Google - definitely not known for suddenly abandoning things.

Comment · 8 years ago
Being honest, what I would do: schedule a time for the call back and make sure to not pick up the phone at that time.
Comment · 8 years ago
How many cold calls can you make per day?

What if they're 52 minutes long?

Comment · 8 years ago
Eating a spoonful of powder sounds like a nightmare I sometimes have.
Comment · 9 years ago
What am I supposed to do, not click on this? I'll be back...

Edit: could have been worse, but still very gross. Not Trypophobia triggering

Comment · 9 years ago
"Intern! Get on wikipedia and edit the article for Boba Fett. The world needs to know that he's not as cool as they think he is."
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not sure - the exact voices themselves generally aren't published, but the papers are detailed enough that you could recreate the system if you wanted.
Comment · 9 years ago
This was kind of the target of the 2016 Blizzard Challenge (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html), as the training data was children's books (clean audio, 'reading voice' prosody, etc).

Some of the voices that came out of that were incredible.

Comment · 9 years ago
I heard the Razer Blade was flaky.

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