{"id":30022,"date":"2016-09-09T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:07","slug":"at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans","title":{"rendered":"At Last, Google\u2019s DeepMind AI Can Make Machines Sound Like Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has announced WaveNet, a speech synthesis program that uses AI and deep learning techniques to generate speech samples better than current technologies. By analyzing samples 16,000 a second, it can generate human-like speech and even its own music compositions.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever been lost in the maze of Youtube videos you may have stumbled on clips of computers reading news articles. You\u2019d recognize that staccato, robotic nature of the voice. We\u2019ve come a long way from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OWwOJlOI1nU\" target=\"_blank\">Danger! Will Robinson!<\/a>,\u201d but it there is yet to be a computer that can seamlessly mimic a human voice.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s a new contender, brought to you by the brilliant minds <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/google-used-their-deepmind-ai-to-slash-its-electric-bill\/\">behind DeepMind<\/a>. Google has announced a new <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/09\/09\/google-deepmind-wavenet-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">voice synthesis program<\/a> in WaveNet, powered by deep neural AI.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-mac...ke-humans\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced WaveNet, a speech synthesis program that uses AI and deep learning techniques to generate speech samples better than current technologies. By analyzing samples 16,000 a second, it can generate human-like speech and even its own music compositions. If you\u2019ve ever been lost in the maze of Youtube videos you may have stumbled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,42,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66292,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022\/revisions\/66292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}