Amazon’s new text2speech engine Polly is pretty lifelike. I copied all my comments from my daily newsletter over into Polly. Soundcloud below contains profane comments. Yup.
I compared the results with Narro, my go-to text2speech tool, and found Polly to be the winner.
And it looks like Amazon has big plans for Polly and its other face, Lex, the speech-to-text synthesizer.
I really wish that Amazon had not won.
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Interesting comparison. The Narro voice initially appears to have more depth but ends up being overall flatter than expected. A bit like some people I know! lol 😂