NJ5 said:
Tell me what speech synthesis software even comes near to the quality of Milo's speech... I've seen many and they're nowhere near as good. Yes, they are usable for blind people to read web pages, but they don't sound like a real person reading, much less a person talking with emotion (which is what Milo sounds like).
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I don't know anything about speech synthesis, so I didn't make any comments on it. I was more interested in talking about speech recognition and gesture/emotion recognition, both of which I believe are possible for Milo. Though, my argument works against myself, and while I might know a bit about speech recognition, I am by no means an expert.
But since we're on speech synthesis, I don't think that's what they're trying to do with Milo (yet). I do think that what Milo is saying is scripted, but I don't think the experience is scripted. That can go towards the illusion thing Molyneux talks about, and that's okay so long as the experience itself is immersive as a result.
This is obvious but we won't really know until it's released or shortly beforehand.
