Model catalogue · Google
Sprachausgabe
The Google platform's speech output turns text into spoken language and brings instant voice cloning with it; in daily work this is a side route - a draft to listen to for a final check, an announcement on the phone. It runs via Google Vertex AI, and on that route the chain is closed: the platform operator's signed confidentiality agreement under section 203 of the German Criminal Code is service-bound and covers this service too, with processing during the request committed to the EU and to France. The additionally listed London endpoint lies outside the EU scope and has to be blocked; voice cloning also touches the personality rights of a real person.
The confidentiality agreement under section 203 of the German Criminal Code is signed. We set the route up without storage at the provider (zero retention) once the provider has committed to it - at Microsoft through the exception from abuse monitoring, which usually takes months. Until then, storage and review by the provider are not ruled out.
What it is good for
- Callable through the platform's EU endpoint, processing committed to the EU and to France
- Covered by the same service-bound section 203 agreement as the platform's language models
- Covers the return path of speech processing without text going to a further service provider
Where it stops
- None of the seven task classes in this catalogue - the entry documents the coverage position, it is not a recommendation for use
- The additionally available London endpoint lies outside the EU scope and has to be blocked
- Voice cloning touches the personality rights of the person concerned - consent and purpose limitation have to be settled in advance
- CLOUD Act exposure remains - the third-country module is mandatory
Status through us
The same model, procured differently, is a different legal position. The status above refers to procurement through us; processing takes place in a third country.
Which route carries it, with which instrument and under which condition, we set out in full to the firm before it commissions us - section 203(4) requires that the chain can be checked, not that it is published. The full matrix, with the sources behind every route, can be requested in the German catalogue after confirming your e-mail address, and we go through it in the conversation.
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