

Let’s weigh some of the leading TTS systems in terms of speech quality and pricing. Every customer-facing industry, including banking, healthcare, hospitality, and education stands to benefit from the enhanced customer engagement opportunities offered by intelligent and natural voice interaction. Remember Duplex that debuted at Google I/O 2018? This AI-powered Google Assistant famously dialed up a salon, negotiated an appointment with the staff in an intelligent back-and-forth communication, without giving away the fact that it was a machine.įrom the way that conversational AI is evolving and is being mainstreamed, it is clear that speech is going to be a key quality determinant for TTS-driven solutions. While intelligible TTS systems are well-developed, the quest for the perfect-sounding one is still on. Generating natural speech remains the holy grail of text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems.
