In June 2022, Amazon Re: Mars, the company’s personal event, exploring progress and practical applications in machine learning, automation, robotics and space (Mars), place in Las Vegas. The event gathered thought leaders and technical experts who build the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and included keynote speakers, innovations spotlights and a series of … Read more
In the last five years, speech synthesis technology has moved to all-neural models that allow the separate elements of speech-proodi, accent, language and speaker identity (voice) to be controlled separately. It is the technology that allowed the Amazon-Text-to-Tale group to teach the feminine-sounding, English-language Alexa voice to speak in perfectly highlight us Spanish and the … Read more
As the start of this year’s Interspeesch is approaching, “Generative AI” has become a guard word in both the machine learning community and the popular press, where it generally refers to models that synthesize text or images. TTS) Models (TTS-to-Tale), which is an important research area at Interspeech, has in some sense always been “generative”. … Read more