While a lot of them used dedicated hardware to perform the speech synthesis, some computers were powerful enough to do this in software, but others were not quite able. The VIC-20 was one of the ...

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

[luc] demonstrates this with a talking thermometer project that requires no display and no special hardware to communicate ... Software-only speech synthesis isn’t new, but it’s better now ...

From text-based chatbots to voice assistants, AI has become an integral part of our daily lives, enhancing productivity and ...

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 ...