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Machine-learning based text-to-speech system clones podcaster's voice

Accepted submission by Rich https://soylentnews.org/~Rich/ at 2019-05-20 03:18:06 from the you-dont-say dept.
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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/ [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 [medium.com].

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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