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Updated on April 22, 2019April 23, 2019/ Team Banter

Talking The Talk

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Your Google Assistant can now talk like John Legend, thanks to WaveNet speech synthesis. Charming and a nice proof point for WaveNet’s unique approach, although PinDrop’s software spotted it as a fake.

Researchers have been playing with speech synthesis for over a century, believe it or not. Check out the Bell Labs Voder in 1939, which required a trained human operator (!).

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