It definitely won't of course, and I'm not saying it's right, but people who think that a mass people-to-automaton transition is going to go smoothly without a plan in place for the 'people' may lack perspective.
If the Amazon warehouses become fully automated and a big group of people lose their jobs and there's no safety net, the warehouses will be burned to the ground within 24 hours.
Sure is: Festival, HTS, Merlin, and a gaggle of wavenet implementations. You'll have to put in some work, it's not turnkey, but you can get some really good results.
I'm not sure - the exact voices themselves generally aren't published, but the papers are detailed enough that you could recreate the system if you wanted.
This was kind of the target of the 2016 Blizzard Challenge (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2016.html), as the training data was children's books (clean audio, 'reading voice' prosody, etc).
Some of the voices that came out of that were incredible.
'He said the company is a “platform” for a new model of food delivery, where fresh fruits and veggies are delivered regularly to the home'
For the past five years, I have gotten a box of fresh fruits and veggies delivered every Monday. The produce is organic, often local, always tasty, the box they come in is reusable, and it doesn't have DRM (that I'm aware of).
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“Williams, a self-proclaimed health-food evangelist, said she’d like to see the company sell packs by themselves to people who can’t afford the device”
Can't spare $400 for the device? How about $5-$8 for 8 oz of fresh juice? Make sure to put it into a paper cup with a lid and a straw so we can maximize the amount of waste generated (along with the juice packet).
"In the US peeps don't drink it because there isn't any good ones available"
The internet has taken care of that. Also, the Canadians have been supplying us with Red Rose for more than a century, which, while not top of the line, is a highly acceptable everyday bag tea.
Also, you can get PG Tips pretty much everywhere.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not holding up RedRose and PG as the pinnacle of teadom - they're just very acceptable and available widely.