{"id":253987,"date":"2018-03-28T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=253987"},"modified":"2018-03-28T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:10:38","slug":"google-cloud-text-to-speech-powered-by-deepmind-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/253987-google-cloud-text-to-speech-powered-by-deepmind-ai.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud text-to-speech powered by DeepMind AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/text-to-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cloud text-to-speech<\/a><\/strong> conversion service powered by machine learning technology from DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>The service offers developers the ability to synthesise speech using 30 voices, available in multiple languages and variants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It applies DeepMind\u2019s groundbreaking research in WaveNet and Google\u2019s powerful neural networks to deliver the highest fidelity possible,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an easy-to-use API, you can create lifelike interactions with your users, across many applications and devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cloud text-to-speech is priced per 1 million characters of text processed, after a free tier.<\/p>\n<p>Standard, non-WaveNet voices grant 4 million free characters per month, after which they are billed at $4 per 1 million characters.<\/p>\n<p>WaveNet-based voices have 1 million free characters per month and are then billed at $16 per million characters.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/253977-google-could-owe-oracle-8-8-billion-for-java-in-android.html\">Google could owe Oracle $8.8 billion for Java in Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched a cloud text-to-speech conversion service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[42494,33897,49673,49675],"class_list":["post-253987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-deepmind","tag-google-cloud","tag-text-to-speech","tag-wavenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254115,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253987\/revisions\/254115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}