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.The voices did sound quite natural and "news-readery", however the one issue I did find is adding a pause between words.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".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.It sounded like someone was rushing through the speech instead of stopping occasionally to "take a breath".