Upgraded Deep Voice can mimic any voice in mere seconds
March 6, 2018 by Bob Yirka, Tech Xplore
Via whitepaper which they have uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, a team at Baidu (China's answer to Google) has announced an upgrade to their text-to-speech application called Deep Voice. Now, instead of taking a half-hour or longer to analyze a person's voice and replicate it, the system can do it in less than a minute. The neural-network based system is part of an effort by the team at Baidu to make machines sound more like humans when they "speak" to us.
There are two parts to the system. The first involves recording voice samples to allow the system to learn what the subject's voice sounds like. The second part reads user-defined text aloud in the voice of the subject.
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