{"id":30006,"date":"2016-09-09T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T22:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/googles-deepmind-achieves-speech-generation-breakthrough"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:42:24","slug":"googles-deepmind-achieves-speech-generation-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/googles-deepmind-achieves-speech-generation-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-deepmind-achieves-speech-generation-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>U.K.-based DeepMind, which Google acquired for about 400 million pounds ($533 million) in 2014, developed an artificial intelligence called WaveNet that can mimic human speech by learning how to form the individual sound waves a human voice creates, it said in a blog post Friday. In blind tests for U.S. English and Mandarin Chinese, human listeners found WaveNet-generated speech sounded more natural than that created with any of Google\u2019s existing text-to-speech programs, which are based on different technologies. WaveNet still underperformed recordings of actual human speech.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-09\/google-s-ai-brainiacs-achieve-speech-generation-breakthrough\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016&#45;09&#45;09\/go...eakthrough<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent. U.K.-based DeepMind, which Google acquired for about 400 million pounds ($533 million) in 2014, developed an artificial intelligence called WaveNet that can mimic human speech by learning how to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60450,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions\/60450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}