#speech-synthesis

[ follow ]
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

"Our main goal is creating a flexible speech neuroprosthesis that enables a patient with paralysis to speak as fluently as possible, managing their own cadence, and be more expressive by letting them modulate their intonation," says Maitreyee Wairagkar, a neuroprosthetics researcher at UC Davis who led the study.
Science
Wearables
fromTheregister
4 months ago

Speech now streaming from brains in real-time

A new brain-computer interface enables rapid speech synthesis from thought in near real-time, aiding patients with paralysis and anarthria.
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago

A year later, OpenAI still hasn't released its voice cloning tool | TechCrunch

OpenAI's Voice Engine, an AI voice-cloning tool, remains in limited preview amid concerns of misuse and regulatory scrutiny.
Data science
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

A Deeper Look at Speech Super-Resolution | HackerNoon

SpeechSR improves speech super-resolution by upsampling from 16 kHz to 48 kHz with superior performance and efficiency over existing models.
Miscellaneous
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Style Prompt Replication: A Simple Trick That Helped Us In Our Journey | HackerNoon

Style Prompt Replication (SPR) enables effective synthesis from short speech prompts, enhancing style transfer in speech generation.
fromHackernoon
7 months ago

How We Used the LibriTTS Dataset to Train the Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer | HackerNoon

The paper discusses training a hierarchical speech synthesizer using the LibriTTS dataset, emphasizing the importance of data diversity for robust voice style transfer.
[ Load more ]