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Google Cloud Text to Speech Conversion
Has anyone used Google cloud text-speech API to convert text to natural sounding voice? I have been using AWS's Poly but the sample file I listened to from the Google's T to S was more natural soun...
I'm exploring this option as well... it seems very complicated with a lot of coding and like it's more intended for mobile app developers. I'll be curious to hear if anyone has successfully used it for eLearning because the "Wave Net" voices really do sound better! It's also still in Beta, so I'm hopeful that it will continue to improve and become more user-friendly.
I ended up using Articulate 360's text to speech but modified the text to add commas, dashes, colons, etc to force pauses where a human speaker would naturally pause... as opposed to the grammatically correct location of punctuation. It has really helped.
