On: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "S...

[leumon]

I think it is more then a simple tts engine. At least from the demo, they showed: It can control the speed and it can sing when requested. Maybe its still a seperate speech engine, but more closely connected to the llm.

[nabakin → leumon]

Azure Speech tts is capable of doing this with SSML. I wouldn't be surprised if it's what OpenAI is using on the backend.

[kromem → leumon]

Most impressive was the incredulity to the 'okay' during the counting demo after the nth interruption.

Was quickly apparent that text only is a poor medium for the variety and scope of signals that could be communicated by these multimodal networks.

[sooheon → leumon]

tts with separate channels for style would do it, no?