Vidalab Reading Book
Learning and science
reading education
SHOW HN2017
6points
5comments
#2,064of 2,242 in 2017
Top 93%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
Objections
AI speech lacks the flair of a real speaker.
From 1 comment
AI speech lacks of flare of a real speaker. We're looking for something to fix this problem. Regarding speech quality, we found that current speech is good enough for children…
dnprock on HN
Speech sounds far from human.
From 1 comment
The AI part seems to be text-to-speech powered by IBM Watson. It sounds far from human, but there's at least things like intonation and pacing that go beyond normal TTS. I long…
rl3 on HN