Surprisingly, without me knowing, there is now a new version of AIVoice called AIVoice 2. The previous version of AIVoice is just an updated version of Voiceroid 2, which allows for expressiveness. However, I felt that AIVoice TTS quality sounds a bit rough compared to TTS software from other TTS software for Japanese like Cevio …
Once you start immersion in Japanese after finishing beginner and early intermediate Japanese, you might wonder how you get that listening practice. How do I practice pitch accents? Sure, people will say you shouldn’t use TTS since it sounds unnatural. But Japanese TTS has improved drastically in recent years.
To introduce more people to Mastodon, I made some introduction videos. That is after discovering that on DLSite during a summer sale. Besides the usual games, manga, and other Japanese-related media, you can buy voice banks and voice synthesizer software. It got me the idea.
