alt Hacker NewsI echo this. For a TTS system to be in any way useful outside the tiny population of the world that speaks exclusively English, it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word.
Cool tech demo though!
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That's a pretty crazy requirement for something to be "useful" especially something that runs so efficiently on cpu. Many content creators from non-english speaking countries can benefit from this type of release by translating transcripts of their content to english and then running it through a model like this to dub their videos in a language that can reach many more people.
But it wouldn't be for those who "speak exclusively English", rather, for those who speak English. Not only that but it's also common to have system language set to English, even if one's language is different.
There's about 1.5B English speakers in the planet.
> it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word
Not abundantly obviously a satire and so interjecting: humans, including professional "simultaneous" interpreters, can't do this. This is not how languages work.
I'm Martian so everything you create better support my language on day 1
English has more users than all but a few products.
This is a great illustration that nothing you ever do will be good enough without people whining.