Watch out, Alexa. Artificial voices are starting to sound just like humans

guest · Mar 7, 2019

Watch out, Alexa. Artificial voices are starting to sound just like humans
March 7, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/tech/ai-voices-sound-human/index.html

The Seattle-based company is using voice actors and artificial intelligence to create synthetic voices that sound a heck of a lot like people. The company claims the text-to-speech software it has been working on for the past year can produce audio that sounds more human-like than other synthetic voices.

"The voice we're trying to create here is super expressive and lifelike in its final result," WellSaid Labs CEO Matt Hocking told CNN Business.

To make the woman's voice in the faux ads, WellSaid Labs first had a voice actor read articles from Wikipedia. These recordings formed a data set that it used to train an artificial neural network — a computing system whose structure is modeled loosely after neurons in a brain.
It takes about four seconds to render a line of text right now, said chief technology officer Michael Petrochuk.
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