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Work to personalize a synthetic voice to better match a person's personality or historical voice is becoming available. [94] A noted application, of speech synthesis, was the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the Blind which incorporated text-to-phonetics software based on work from Haskins Laboratories and a black-box synthesizer built by Votrax .
Apps such as textPlus and WhatsApp use Text-to-Speech to read notifications aloud and provide voice-reply functionality. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is powered by WaveNet, [5] software created by Google's UK-based AI subsidiary DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014. [6] It tries to distinguish from its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft. [7]
The term voice changer (also known as voice enhancer) refers to a device which can change the tone or pitch of or add distortion to the user's voice, or a combination and vary greatly in price and sophistication. A kazoo or a didgeridoo can be used as a makeshift voice changer, though it can be difficult to understand what the person is trying ...
Google is showing off Translatotron, a first-of-its-kind translation model that can directly convert speech from one language into another while maintaining a speaker's voice and cadence.
Whisper is a machine learning model for speech recognition and transcription, created by OpenAI and first released as open-source software in September 2022. [2]It is capable of transcribing speech in English and several other languages, and is also capable of translating several non-English languages into English. [1]
In March, the company debuted its first Otter speech translation app at Mobile World Congress. [4] It was available for free for Google's Android and Apple's mobile products. [1] In October, the company launched Otter for Education, a note taking tool designed for college students. [5]
Audio deepfake technology, also referred to as voice cloning or deepfake audio, is an application of artificial intelligence designed to generate speech that convincingly mimics specific individuals, often synthesizing phrases or sentences they have never spoken.
It was decided that the voice assistant would be a young, ironic girl, ready to help the owner of a smartphone. The voice of "Alice" was dubbing actress Tatiana Shitova, who voiced most of Scarlett Johansson's characters and the voice of OS1, who called herself "Samantha", in the Russian dubbing of Spike Jonze's "Her".