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This will not happen for many, many years to come. That is, companies will try it, there will be some bad and ridiculous results, there will be pusheback and t
by dmitriid 5y ago
This will not happen for many, many years to come.
That is, companies will try it, there will be some bad and ridiculous results, there will be pusheback and the tech will largely be ignored for a decade or so.
Main problems will be intonation and inflection. What is a question to an English speaker is a regular sentence to a Russian. And so on. "Petabytes of data from primarily English-speaking libraries" mean jack shit if you wnt to actually do voice translation into/from foreign languages
- nostrademons 5y agoI'd encourage you to listen to some cutting edge speech synthesis like Google Duplex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwHj2HaOT0 This is live in production today - business owners are getting calls from robots, and you can trigger it yourself with Google Assistant. [Disclaimer: I work(ed) on Google Assistant - I'm in the process of transferring out - and have listened to some presentations about how Duplex works. It's pretty crazy technology.]
- cellis 5y agoIt's still not very good. The state of the art vocoders ( StyleTron et al ) are years away from getting intonation right. But then if you could get intonation correct, you still need to be able to get pausing and pitch correct, let alone timbre and a few other things I'm forgetting from my research.
- mateo1 5y agoAlthough this is irrelevant, is Google Duplex publicly known to be used by any call center company in any capacity?