{"id":73046,"date":"2017-10-06T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly"},"modified":"2017-10-06T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:22:31","slug":"googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s New AI Can Mimic Human Speech Almost Perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) research company <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DeepMind<\/a> shared details on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/at-last-googles-deepmind-ai-can-make-machines-sound-like-humans\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaveNet<\/a>, a deep neural network used to synthesize realistic human speech. Now, an improved version of the technology is being <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.com\/blog\/wavenet-launches-google-assistant\/\" target=\"_blank\">rolled out for use with Google Assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A system for <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-new-tech-can-copy-anyones-voice-using-just-a-minute-of-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\">speech synthesis<\/a> \u2014 otherwise known as text-to-speech (TTS) \u2014 typically utilizes one of two techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Concatenative TTS involves the piecing together of chunks of recordings from a voice actor. The drawback of this method is that audio libraries must be replaced whenever upgrades or changes are made.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/googles-new-ai-can-mimic-human-speech-almost-perfectly\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) research company DeepMind shared details on WaveNet, a deep neural network used to synthesize realistic human speech. Now, an improved version of the technology is being rolled out for use with Google Assistant. A system for speech synthesis \u2014 otherwise known as text-to-speech (TTS) \u2014 typically utilizes one of two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73046","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}