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If you’ve ever been lost in the maze of YouTube videos you may have stumbled on clips of computers reading news articles. You’d recognise that staccato, robotic nature of the voice.
We’ve come a long way from "Danger! Will Robinson!", but it there is yet to be a computer that can seamlessly mimic a human voice.
Now, there’s a new contender, brought to you by the brilliant minds behind DeepMind. Google has announced a new voice synthesis program in WaveNet, powered by deep neural AI.
Understanding voice samples has been powering programs like Google Voice Search for quite some time now. However, synthesizing something from those samples is proving to be quite a challenge...
Computers learning by themselves ... they are starting to talk like a human.