Mustafa Uysal

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Bluebird

I’ve released a new version of Handywriter today, now featuring recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. The results are quite impressive. Here is the famous “Bluebird” poem by Charles Bukowski. (Maybe next time, it will sing “Famous Blue Raincoat” by L.Cohen?)

The voice you are hearing is generated by AI technology, not a human.

There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out but I’m too tough for him
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
To let anybody see you
There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out
But I pour whiskey on him and inhale
Cigarette smoke
And the whores and the bartenders
And the grocery clerks never know that
He’s in there
There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out but I’m too tough for him
I say, Stay down, do you want to mess
Me up? You want to screw up the
Works? You want to blow my book sales in
Europe? There’s a bluebird in my heart that
Wants to get out
But I’m too clever, I only let him out
At night sometimes when everybody’s asleep
I say, I know that you’re there
So don’t be sad
Then I put him back
But he’s singing a little
In there, I haven’t quite let him die
And we sleep together like that
With our secret pact
And it’s nice enough to make a man
Weep, but I don’t weep, do
You?

The voice you are hearing is generated by AI technology, not a human.

Comparison with AWS Polly

I’ve tried various voices by using Polly’s neural TTS system, and apparently, it’s not as good as OpenAI’s TTS.

AWS Polly – Gregory
AWS Polly – Danielle
AWS Polly – Kevin

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