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Re:AI produces realistic sounds that fool humans by tmalsburg2 on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:45PM (#11898367)
I don't think these systems' purpose is to fool humans. Tasks that test whether a system can fool people are simply a good way to evaluate the performance a system. If a speech synthesis fools people into thinking a real person is speaking, that means the speech synthesis is really good. You might say it's not important that a speech synthesis sounds perfectly human but our speech perception evolved to be optimal for human speech, so it's likely that any deviation from that makes the signal harder to process.

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