Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...

These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of ...

Speech synthesis using neural networks has revolutionised the generation of naturalistic and intelligible speech from text. Contemporary systems integrate advanced deep learning architectures that ...

The Fujitsu’s Laboratories announced developments of speech synthesis technology which reads text out loudly on a monotone voice. The voice can be synthesized that is fitting for the situation as well ...

Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the ...

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the well-known (at least in the geek world) computer flick “WarGames,” wherein a 1980s computer wiz accidentally connects via modem to the WOPR (War Operation ...

Last year, Google showed off WaveNet, a new way of generating speech that didn’t rely on a bulky library of word bits or cheap shortcuts that result in stilted speech. WaveNet used machine learning to ...

If speech is the mirror of the soul, then many of today's commercial products will reap their just rewards. Maturation of speech-compression coding algorithms is allowing almost every new device to ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Artificial intelligence is making human speech as malleable and replicable as pixels. Today, a Canadian AI ...