can I ask, do Apple let you access the OS's Chinese Siri voices, as well? Those would be quite excellent, very intelligible.
Hi, Mike. As I understand it, Azure neural TTS is recently available on-device/disconnected and also includes word-by-word tracking. However, if most users are satisfied with legacy technology or it's not profitable to develop further in any case, I get it.The problem with those other offerings is that they’re mostly online, and rarely come with the ability to follow along word by word as they read. Also, frankly, most users seem to be happy with the system TTS, and paid TTS is not a particularly big / profitable add-on for us.
So our current plan is mostly to improve system TTS support - let you access all of the Chinese voices on iOS and juggle multiple engines / voices simultaneously on Android - and wait for somebody to release an offline Chinese TTS with the features we need.
The Siri ones don't seem to be accessible, no; the APIs give us access to I think 7 in total but seemingly not those.can I ask, do Apple let you access the OS's Chinese Siri voices, as well? Those would be quite excellent, very intelligible.
It's not available on iOS yet, unfortunately:Azure neural TTS is recently available on-device/disconnected and also includes word-by-word tracking
The Siri ones don't seem to be accessible, no; the APIs give us access to I think 7 in total but seemingly not those.