Edent, 2 years ago

Synthetic Poetry

I've been experimenting with Amazon's Polly service. It's their fancy text-to-sort-of-human-style-speech system. Think "Alexa" but with a variety of voices, genders, and accents.

Here's "Brian" - their English, male, received pronunciation voice - reading John Betjeman's poem "Slough":

The pronunciation of all the words is incredibly lifelike. If you heard it on the radio, it mi

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/synthetic-poetry/

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