Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans

Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans

Humans have officially given their voice to machines. A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text. The system is Google’s second official generation of the technology, which consists of two deep neural networks. The first network translates the text into a spectrogram (pdf), a visual way to represent audio frequencies over time.

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