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 ...

President Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president Monday and gave an inaugural address nearly double the length of his 2017 speech. Why it matters: His speech touched on many topics including ...

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.

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 ...

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.

First they translate speech into text. Then they translate that text ... This opened up a whole new trove of examples of translations for their model. AI models can’t understand African languages.