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		Jakob on March 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind Wa... Having an English text but setting the language to another one like German or French is hilarious. You get e.g. ze Dscherman aczent or de frensch onehe.

jfno67 on March 27, 2018 | [–]

I decided to do the opposite so French text with the wavenet English voice, pretty funny too.

pacaro on March 27, 2018 | | [–]

Also feeding it text from the Anguish Languish[1] corpus is pretty good.

[1] https://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/anguish.html

davidklemke on March 27, 2018 | [–]

I am ashamed to admit I spent far too much time doing exactly that. The Japanese one really cracked me up.

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