Creating convincing artificial speech is a hot pursuit right now, with Google arguably in the lead. The company may have leapt ahead again with the announcement today of Tacotron 2, a new method for ...

Can you tell the difference between AI-generated computer speech and a real, live human being? Maybe you’ve always thought you could. Maybe you’re fond of Alexa and Siri but believe you would never ...

Granted, that’s a phrase you’ve never seen before and will almost certainly never need to hear again. But that’s the whole point: Tacotron has never seen the phrase before either, yet it can dance ...

Google has revealed a new text-to-speech system that could soon allow AI voice assistants to sound far more natural. The tool, called Tacotron 2, was trained on examples of human dialogue and text ...

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Tech giant Google’s attempts to develop a natural-sounding voice from text have taken a big jump forward. A team of Google researchers wrote in the blog post that the new approach does not use complex ...

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Google recently wrapped up the development of Tacotron 2, the next generation of its text-to-speech technology that the company has been perfecting for years, as revealed by a research paper authored ...

Taking a giant leap towards its "AI first" dream, Google has come up with a text-to-speech AI system. This new system is sure to confuse you with its human-like articulation. The new text-to-speech ...

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