Text to speech (TTS) is a popular area in machine learning. As technology evolves, the option of TTS has increased drastically. In recent years, cloud computing companies have improved TTS with the growth of big data and artificial intelligence applications. I will compare 2 TTS that I used to create AWS tutorials on YouTube. The tutorials can be found in this playlist.
Nowadays, big cloud computing companies provide APIs for speech recognition services makes it easy to use. Contrary to open sources TTS services, TTS APIs provided by cloud computing companies ensures that personal data remains within the user account. I will share my experience with Amazon Polly and IBM Watson here in this article. Note that I have used the Demo version of IBM Watson and no personal data is involved.