Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) research company DeepMind shared details on WaveNet, a deep neural network used to synthesize realistic human speech. Now, an improved version of the technology ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Google is continuing its work in the disability space by revealing a new tool aimed at helping individuals with speech impairments communicate. Called Project Relate, the app was designed to help ...

In a blog post published last week, Google AI product manager Julie Cattiau announced one of the company’s latest efforts to come out of its “Inventors at Google” initiative. Project Relate is a new ...

Google wants to make it easier for people with disabilities that affect their speech to communicate with those around them and they’re looking for some help. The company has developed an app that’s ...

Google Cloud outlined Cloud Text-to-Speech a machine learning service that uses a model by Google's Deepmind subsidiary to analyze raw audio. With the move, developers will get more access to the text ...

For most users, voice assistants are helpful tools. But for the millions of people with speech impairments caused by neurological conditions, voice assistants can be yet another frustrating challenge.

Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A new technique from ...

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