Fwd: Adjusting Cloud TTS to sound more natural

[Andrés Márquez]

As this is related to Text-to-Speech, I am forwarding it to the right group.

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From: drye...@gmail.com <drye...@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 4:52:56 PM UTC-5
Subject: Adjusting Cloud TTS to sound more natural
To: Google Cloud Developers <google-c...@googlegroups.com>

Is there any way to adjust the length of pauses between sentences? I want to slow down the TTS, or make it more or less equal. It sometimes seems like it speeds up under certain circumstances. This does not always happen but seems to happen regularly when it reads the following test instruction: "Select the correct answer choice, A, B, or C." There is little or no pause between the "C." and the next sentence. It also happens when there are only two answer choices "A or B." Anyone else having this problem?  We are using both the Standard TTS and enhanced Wavenet TTS voices in our work so far.

[Eduardo Ortiz Caraveo]

If you want TTS to sound more natural, you might want to make use of custom voice, making use of them you can have a more natural text-to-speech experience.