I feel blown away and creeped out at the same time. It sounds so natural that's it's creepy. Only question I have now is that is audio being streamed or generated on device.
I just wish they'd offer more languages as it currently is English only. It can speak German and Spanish, but with a very clear English accent, which makes it kind of funny and makes one think about why the accent sounds so real.
Among others...
Had to check myself.
> Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
The English pronunciation is perfect, but some Russian words do not have the correct pronounciation or emphasis.
I'm wondering if I can train the model to pronounce these words more accurately.
It seems similar to what other commenters are saying about it taking in German with an American accent.
It's no big deal but Siri/Google/Alexa voices are better normalized, IMHO. I don't mind heavy accents at all in humans but they get annoying after a while for a voice assistants, especially if it's not my accent :)
I tried it now but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe related to the outage yesterday (is it still going on?). It just listens but never replied.