into words. It is used to turn text input into spoken words for the blind. Speech synthesis performs real-time conversion without a predefined vocabulary, but does not create perfect-sounding ...

Voice AI is rapidly advancing with startups raising over $398 million in VC funding in 2024, as enterprises adopt it at pace.

Speech synthesis technology such as automated explanation services for people with vision impairment contributes to the development of a variety of services for communicating information via audio.

The nonprofit AI safety org MLCommons has teamed up with Hugging Face to release a public domain dataset of speech recordings ...

While a lot of them used dedicated hardware to perform the speech synthesis, some computers were powerful enough to do this in software, but others were not quite able. The VIC-20 was one of the ...

Software-only speech synthesis isn’t new, but it’s better now than it was in Atari’s day. Nowadays, even hobbyist microcontrollers have more than enough processing power and memory to do a ...

Meta revealed an ‘all-in-one’ AI translation model capable of understanding close to 100 different languages. Dubbed SeamlessM4T (Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation), this is ...

CodeBaby secures a patent for its Natural Language Avatar System, revolutionizing AI avatars with real-time speech, gestures, and seamless ...

MLCommons has partnered with AI development platform Hugging Face to release one of the largest public domain collections of ...