Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology
I picked 3 random paragraphs from a random article on a local online news site.<p>The voices did sound quite natural and "news-readery", however the one issue I did find is adding a pause between words.<p>With the example phrase: "He bought himself a boat and then took it to his house". You often expect a small pause after the word "boat".<p>I was able to manually fix it by adding some commas and full stops, however the AI was not able to pick up those pauses naturally.<p>It sounded like someone was rushing through the speech instead of stopping occasionally to "take a breath".