Uncanny valley. It results in all sorts of negative reactions in me when I deal with a near-human bot, more so than a normal mechanical one.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 11, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Over the last half decade or so, there has been a big movement toward > automatic speech recognition (ASR) coupled with text-to-speech (TTS) that has > a much more "natural" tone and cadence. > > "Huh! Sounds kind of like a real human, actually!" is all the rage, while > robotic recordings are out. > > There's a huge polarisation in ASR and TTS technologies. The bad ones - e.g. > the stock add-ons in the open source world - are pretty bad. The good ones, > however, are really, _really_ good. And really expensive. > > Last I heard Voxeo is still the market leader in that second category, but > things may have changed. > > -- > Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC > 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 > Atlanta, GA 30346 > United States > > Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
