Creating convincing artificial speech is a hot pursuit right now, with Google arguably in the lead. The company may have leapt ahead again with the announcement today of Tacotron 2, a new method for ...

Google has published a new research paper detailing a text-to-speech system known as Tacotron 2 The system, which is powered by neural networks, includes an AI that can read text aloud in a near human ...

Can you tell the difference between AI-generated computer speech and a real, live human being? Maybe you’ve always thought you could. Maybe you’re fond of Alexa and Siri but believe you would never ...

Taking a giant leap towards its "AI first" dream, Google has come up with a text-to-speech AI system. This new system is sure to confuse you with its human-like articulation. The new text-to-speech ...

Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google’s newest project, however, could change that. Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people ...

Google claims that the latest version of its AI-powered speech synthesis system, Tacotron 2, is almost indistinguishable from human speech – and has put some comparative examples online to demonstrate ...

When machines speak, they sound stilted, robotic and mechanical – but they’re getting better. Google’s latest text-to-speech system, called Tacotron 2, generates sounds entirely from scratch, and the ...