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 ...

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 ...

The nonprofit AI safety org MLCommons has teamed up with Hugging Face to release a public domain dataset of speech recordings ...

Voice conversion (VC) and speech synthesis are rapidly evolving fields within the realm of artificial intelligence and machine learning. These technologies aim to modify or generate human-like ...

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it sounds dated by today’s ...

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 ...