Written by Rakesh Iyer is a Staff Software Engineer Leland Reschis is Group Product Manager
Our Speech Services by Google speech system is in major upgrade. This will provide natural, clearer voices. A new synthesizer has been added to all 421 voices for 67 languages.
If you already use TTS and the Speech Services by Google engine, there is nothing to do – everything will happen behind the scenes as your users will have automatically downloaded the latest update. We’ve seen a significant side by side quality increase with this change, particularly in respects to clarity and naturalness.
This upgrade will see us change the default voice for en-US from one built with fresher speaker data to one which is a significant improvement. Users who haven’t selected a voice for the system will be able to hear an entirely different speaker than those using system defaults. The difference can be heard below
Upgrade and speaker change for EN/US
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Sample of the Current Speaker |
Example Upgraded Speaker |
Some other languages are available as speaker upgrades
All 64-bit versions will receive this update Android Devices via Google Play Store during the next few weeks, as part of Speech Services By Google apk. You can verify the version number 210390644 for your package at com.google if you’re concerned that users may not have updated it yet.Android.tts.
If you haven’t used TTS in your projects yet, or haven’t given your users the ability to choose a voice within your android app, it’s fairly straightforward, and easy to experiment with. We’ve included some sample code to get you started.
Here’s an example of how to Voice synthesis can be set up. Finally, we send the synthesizer a simple word.
This is a great experience!
