TechCrunch

Google’s WaveNet machine learning-based speech synthesis comes to Assistant

Last year, Google showed off WaveNet, a new way of generating speech that didn’t rely on a bulky library of word bits or cheap shortcuts that result in stilted speech. WaveNet used machine learning to ...
VentureBeat

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech adds 31 WaveNet voices, 7 languages and dialects

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TechCrunch

Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music

Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A new technique from ...
GeekWire

That’s one smooth-talking robot: Google’s WaveNet AI program produces human-like speech

Text-to-speech technology isn’t great. I’ve always found the robotic drone of computerized voices a bit grating — a sentiment that came up on a recent episode of GeekWire Radio when I bashed my editor ...
9to5google

Google opens Cloud Text-to-Speech to devs w/ DeepMind WaveNet-based natural voices

Given the rise of smart assistants and smart home devices, text-to-speech (TTS) is increasingly one primary method of interaction. Google is today introducing its Cloud Text-to-Speech technology and ...