re: The voices behind the machine

re: The voices behind the machine

Hi Florian, yes I agree. And I would add that a sentence recorded by a good voice talent for a particular dialog state in a particular application is likely to be more contextually appropriate in terms of prosody, etc. - and hence more acceptable to callers - than the same sentence generated by a TTS system.

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