I'm not 100% satisfied with it, so I thought I'd post here to ask if I'm missing anything. It doesn't sound as natural as Polly and Google, but it's the most unrobotic TTS I've encountered so far. So the best alternative I have so far is IBM Watson.
My problem with the latter is that it's paid, apparently? So again, the same reason why I don't want to hire a voice actor. My problem with the former is that it needs you to have an AWS and I tried, but I got stuck in the mobile confirmation - the code from AWS wouldn't reach my phone - so that's a no go so far. I've looked up a bunch of services and I think Amazon Polly and Google TTS are the most natural sounding I've encountered. Solution? I think I'm fine with a Text-to-Speech service. 3) Even if #2 wasn't a problem, I don't have good gear to record a good voice over.
2) I don't like my voice and don't have the talent to do it myself. I'm recording the gameplay via Nvidia Share (aka Shadowplay), editing the video via DaVinci Resolve, so basically all that's left is the voice-over narration.Ī few problems though: 1) I don't plan on monetizing, so it would not be cost-efficient to hire someone to do the voice over. If you're familiar with Noah Caldwell-Gervais, check out his YouTube, that's probably the closest example of what I'd like to aim for. I just want to dabble in creating videos that are basically video essays about video games. As for why theyre used: it all began with Microsoft Sam, a text-to-speech voice who was an early meme itself by virtue of the funny say itd pronounce various words or syllables.
