Forward-looking: Audiobooks have gained popularity in recent years due to their accessibility, but recording them can be difficult and expensive. Researchers recently demonstrated an automated method ...

Amazon.com Inc. researchers have developed a new text-to-speech model, Base TTS, that can pronounce words more naturally than earlier neural networks. TechCrunch reported the project late Wednesday.

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it sounds dated by today’s standards ...

To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the open source Whisper speech-to-text model that the company released in September. Priced ...

Google has awarded just under $2m to 21 projects in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, following the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge in the region. The move is part of a wider ...

Microsoft's VALL-E 2 can convincingly recreate human voices using just a few seconds of audio, its creators claim. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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