Artificial intelligence programs that are made to transcribe text into speech instead of using more rigid hand-coded programs are not an entirely new thing, but Google’s newest, called Tacotron, is ...

Granted, that’s a phrase you’ve never seen before and will almost certainly never need to hear again. But that’s the whole point: Tacotron has never seen the phrase before either, yet it can dance ...

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 ...

Google recently wrapped up the development of Tacotron 2, the next generation of its text-to-speech technology that the company has been perfecting for years, as revealed by a research paper authored ...

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 ...

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 has revealed a new text-to-speech system that could soon allow AI voice assistants to sound far more natural. The tool, called Tacotron 2, was trained on examples of human dialogue and text ...

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 ...

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 ...