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Machine-Learning Based Text-To-Speech System Clones Podcaster's Voice

posted by martyb on Monday May 20 2019, @02:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-dont-say dept.

Rich writes:

Developers at business AI company Dessa have come up with a new text-to-speech system called "RealTalk". In the version they demoed, it was trained to speak with the voice of popular podcaster Joe Rogan. The developers have put up a site with a blind test at http://fakejoerogan.com/. They must have been so impressed by their own creation that they discuss the implications at https://medium.com/@dessa_/real-talk-speech-synthesis-5dd0897eef7f.

Your humble submitter did the blind test and just barely had a majority of correct guesses, but was so impressed by the quality that he considered it newsworthy - how do you fare in the test?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Alfred on Monday May 20 2019, @07:29PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Monday May 20 2019, @07:29PM (#845604) Journal
    Dang, you overachiever. I missed one. If the samples were longer i think it would make a difference. and i bet these were the best samples they had with many others being very obviously bad.

    I think they are getting closer to what the CIA/NSA was doing last decade. Part of that is to take a mic feed and translate it into different voice in real time. That analysis helps with landing the right inflections and stresses too.
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