I would love for this to be integrated into a voice assistant like Alexa. I could spend hours playing this on a road trip using Echo Auto.

I’m sure the compute costs to host this would be pretty high, and I’m not sure there’s a way to charge users to cover that cost. Perhaps a self-deployed version for the more technically savvy folks?

I think AWS Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-...) can do this. I'm not sure of the quality compared to Google's or Apple's TTS though.

Apparently it's semi-decent, thank you!:

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

I was hoping that the voice in the video was created by Polly. That would've been amazing but the samples they provide sound quite robotic.

Yeah, they do, unfortunately :/ Hopefully there will be some improvement they make or some other API that will be able to provide this.

I run this exact setup in my home office and it's great.

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