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		joeyo on May 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real... I've noticed this as well. My working hypothesis is that one is for high(er) bandwidth and the other for low bandwidth situations.

gusmd on May 8, 2018 [–]

My understanding is that the "low-fi", more robotic one uses an offline TTS engine for when there is no connectivity. When connectivity is good, it will switch to better, cloud-based one.

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