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echoangleyesterday at 9:47 AM1 replyview on HN

How does state of the art matter when talking about usefulness? Is old school synthesis useless?


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ethinyesterday at 5:39 PM

No? But is it not unreasonable to expect "state of the art" TTS to be able to do at least what old school synthesis is capable of doing? Being "state of the art" means being the highest level of development or achievement in a particular field, device, procedure, or technique at a specific point in time. I don't think it's therefore unreasonable to expect supposed "state of the art" text-to-speech synthesis to do far better at everything old-school TTS could do and then some.

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