Voice-over Artist Reading OWON Marketing Chinglish

[EEVblog]

Funny!

[crispy_tofu]

Wait, what!? Mega-amp? 

[SteveLy]

Funny!

[Someone]

Isnt that a synthesised voice? There is very little intonation and some quantising of pitch.

...edit...
Yes, it seems most of the current packages will parse some SI unit symbols but get the prefixes wrong.

[crispy_tofu]

Isnt that a synthesised voice? There is very little intonation and some quantising of pitch.

I would think that any person natively speaking English would burst into laughter when reading that 

[tec5c]

...even I can't get it completely understood.

In all honesty, the above quote is worse than anything in that video.

[tec5c]

..even I don't completely understand it.

I was merely referring to the fact the video is not even bad. Compared to a native English speaker trying to speak Mandarin 

[EEVblog]

Isnt that a synthesised voice?

Sounds very unsynthesised to me? Yes the intonation and pace is sometimes off, but lots of good fluid bits too.

[GNU_Ninja]

It's even funnier if you enable the YouTube subtitles on that video

[tec5c]

let along Chinese is NOT a language, it is a set of languages...

Hence why I said Mandarin.

[crispy_tofu]

It's even funnier if you enable the YouTube subtitles on that video

OWON has ballistics in their scopes?! 

[coppice]

Isnt that a synthesised voice?

Sounds very unsynthesised to me? Yes the intonation and pace is sometimes off, but lots of good fluid bits too.

I agree that it sounds too good for a synthetic voice. Some voice over artists are absolutely amazing to work with. They can read the deepest of technical works, or the most idiotic garbage, and on the first pass make it sound like they are an actual expert in the field.

[coppice]

let along Chinese is NOT a language, it is a set of languages...

Hence why I said Mandarin.

People in the PRC and Taiwan would both say they speak Mandarin. However, their technical terminology, and especially terms which came into being after 1949, generally has little in common.

[Muttley Snickers]

A bit too power hungry for my liking, "thirteen thousand two hundred mega amp battery works XDS series into three hours".

I might need a bit bigger trailer just for the battery transport.

[tec5c]

Why?
OK "Even I can't understand it correctly" would be better but for a non-native English speaker it was not really worthy of criticism.

Right, and the worse thing in the video is the voice over actor saying "mega amp..." which has nothing to do with the language barrier. In this sense, nothing in the video is worth criticising.

[Someone]

Isnt that a synthesised voice?

Sounds very unsynthesised to me? Yes the intonation and pace is sometimes off, but lots of good fluid bits too.

Having recreated the same handling of the units (that a human is unlikely to get wrong in that way particularly re: GS/s) I'm very sure its synthesised, the technology has come a long way in the past 10 years but it still has another decade or so before it will fool those of us with good ears.

[fivefish]

But I am very surprised at the fact that voice actors, at least this one, are willing to say whatever "scripts" without thinking twice.

Probably hired him from fiverr. 

[SteveLy]

OWON. OWONTWON. ULWONTWON2.

[tooki]

Isnt that a synthesised voice?

Sounds very unsynthesised to me? Yes the intonation and pace is sometimes off, but lots of good fluid bits too.

Having recreated the same handling of the units (that a human is unlikely to get wrong in that way particularly re: GS/s) I'm very sure its synthesised, the technology has come a long way in the past 10 years but it still has another decade or so before it will fool those of us with good ears.

I have to concur. If anything, the best TTS from 10 years ago (AT&T's) was already this good. Most likely, they actually used the Web based demo to create the soundtrack.

No voice actor would have left out articles (a, the, etc) they know belong there. Definitely synthesized.

[bitseeker]

Sounds like a real voice actor to me. Although TTS systems sound pretty good, they still have glitches that are noticeable. Relative to the captioning rendered in the video, the voice actor made some corrections, especially when words were misspelled.

What surprises me is that they didn't request or accept corrections from the voice actor. He may not have known technical terms, but he certainly could have fixed basic grammar and awkward phrasing.

Anyway, it was fun hearing someone actually read it. At first it seemed OK because the pronunciation and intonation were within expectations. As it went on, and especially when reading along, it made me wonder how difficult it must have been to perform such a script.

[OldSchoolTechCorner]

It does sound like a synthetic voice, it has that distinct sound characteristic that quite noticeable throughout the whole video. It was pretty funny the mistakes to. 

[SL4P]

Why?
OK "Even I can't understand it correctly" would be better but for a non-native English speaker it was not really worthy of criticism.

Right, and the worse thing in the video is the voice over actor saying "mega amp..." which has nothing to do with the language barrier. In this sense, nothing in the video is worth criticising.

... and the worse thing in the video...
I dunno, but I reckon it could have been a worse thing, or the worst thing...
(worse is relative, worst is absolute - but hey, I'm only a povo speaker in a glass house.)

[miguelvp]

I don't think it was synthesized but maybe post processed to make it fit with the video but yeah something is odd about the voice.

One thing the video denotes is the importance of using a voice actor that at least is familiar with the terminology, One Ge S instead of One Giga Samples makes it confusing as well as the milli to Mega and other things.

I think even copywriters usually are field specific as well. Tek, Keysight, etc probably use at least trained sales people or even engineers to do their videos or at least have them involved so they can catch things like that.

[SL4P]

All said, the video production values were quite good, and simply re-voicing the clip would help sell a bucket load more scopes in English speaking markets.

China sales 400K units... Non China sales 20K units...  who cares.

[bitseeker]

I don't think it was synthesized but maybe post processed to make it fit with the video but yeah something is odd about the voice.

The voice was definitely processed, but not an unusual thing these days. At least it wasn't a pitch-corrected nightmare.