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Well here's one example: Deepmind made Wavenet, which turned text-to-speech on it's head. Variants of Wavenet underlie most or all of the talking machines (Goog
by sdenton4 5y ago
Well here's one example: Deepmind made Wavenet, which turned text-to-speech on it's head. Variants of Wavenet underlie most or all of the talking machines (Google assistant, Alexa, etc.).
- TaupeRanger 5y agoThat's pretty much it. A maybe-slightly-better computer voice.
- sdenton4 5y agoWell, also Alpha-Fold, and let's not forget beating the world champions at Go, which was a really major unsolved problem. I'll also contend that WaveNet was not 'maybe-slightly-better,' but actually a massive leap forward. The phrase 'who pissed in your cheerios' comes to mind... Here's hoping that if you ever build something worthwhile it is received with a bit more compassion.