Speech synthesis using neural networks has revolutionised the generation of naturalistic and intelligible speech from text. Contemporary systems integrate advanced deep learning architectures that ...

Facebook today unveiled a highly efficient, AI text-to-speech (TTS) system that can be hosted in real time using regular processors. It's currently powering Portal, the company's brand of smart ...

Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the ...

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Last year, Google showed off WaveNet, a new way of generating speech that didn’t rely on a bulky library of word bits or cheap shortcuts that result in stilted speech. WaveNet used machine learning to ...