Like artificial intelligence, speech synthesis was one of those applications that promised to revolutionize computing in the 1980s, only to fizzle out after people realized that a robotic voice ...

Researchers at tech giant Meta have created a machine-learning system that almost instantaneously translates speech in 101 languages into words spoken by a voice synthesizer in any of 36 target ...

into words. It is used to turn text input into spoken words for the blind. Speech synthesis performs real-time conversion without a predefined vocabulary, but does not create perfect-sounding ...

Software-only speech synthesis isn’t new, but it’s better now than it was in Atari’s day. Nowadays, even hobbyist microcontrollers have more than enough processing power and memory to do a ...

That means that, without careful filtering, AI systems like speech recognition and voice synthesizer models trained on Unsupervised People’s Speech could exhibit some of the same prejudices.