But Blossom’s creator [Michael] wanted this to help understand how humans interact with robots so the latest version is outfitted not only with a large language model with text-to-speech ...

There are also plenty of great text-to-speech applications available for mobile devices, and Voice Dream Reader is an excellent example. It can convert documents, web articles and ebooks into ...

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it sounds dated by today’s ...

A new study shows that refining both transcriptions and translations using large language models leads to better speech ...

The model can take text or speech inputs from any of ... users should be able to opt out of using speech technologies — for example, in medical or legal settings — if they so desire.

And while deepfakes provide a dystopian view of a scary future, there are also practical applications of text-to-speech that are beneficial for humanity, and can be used today in business settings.

Meta's new model can also translate up to 100 languages from speech to text, we're told ... that humans handle with relative ease — for example, conversations in noisy places or between people ...