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"Ablation: No Monotonic Interpolation" is my favorite — wait for it...

I ran into that with tacotron sometimes too

I think this is a better link and should have been posted instead. These sound samples are pretty wild! Scary accurate.

Thanks! You can also experiment with DeepMind's WaveNet using GCP TTS Service (free tier):

Do I still hear a bit of 'autotune' in there, or am I projecting?

I wonder if DeepMind will tackle emoting; they certainly have something good enough for voice overs in a business context.