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 ...

Google’s New Text-to-Speech AI Is so Good We Bet You Can’t Tell It From a Real Human See if you hear a difference between Tacotron 2 and human speech.

Google has developed a text-to-speech artificial intelligence system called Tacotron 2 with human-like articulation. This system is touted to deliver an AI-generated computer speech that matches ...

Repeat After Me Tacotron 2 pairs the text-mapping abilities of its predecessor with the speaking prowess of WaveNet for an end result that is, frankly, a bit unsettling. It works by taking text, and, ...

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 ...

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 ...