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How about the inverse process -- speech synthesis? Anyone know what the state of the art is in that field? The tech has been getting steadily better but we stil
by mintplant 10y ago
How about the inverse process -- speech synthesis? Anyone know what the state of the art is in that field? The tech has been getting steadily better but we still seem a ways away from passable machine-generated audiobooks, for example.
- Devid2014 10y agoLike thins one ? WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/ https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
- mintplant 10y agoThat's very cool, thanks for the link! From the comparison, the audio quality is clearly improved and they eliminated the sort of digital "wobble" that I usually associate with TTS. Intonation is still a bit off, though. Will check out their paper.
- marmshallow 10y agoI've wondered the same thing! How much work is being done in the area of making Siri and OK Google sound more human-like?
- snowwrestler 10y agoComputer generated speech (Siri and voiceover) was one of the areas that Apple said they were applying AI techniques to improve.