Re:WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:19PM
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Great video!
If you work in radio or voiceover you learn really quickly that the voice is so much more complex than people give it credit for. Subtle changes in delivery, timing, inflection, syllabic emphasis, pauses etc... make a massive difference.
Anyone can "talk like a robot" but speaking naturally is way more dynamical than just making the sounds of the words transition smoothly.
I'm not sure if it's way easier or way harder than we're doing it now.
Re:WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
by Yhippa on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:14PM
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The improved voices sound exactly like the audio from CBT's I've taken in the past. Could possibly have fooled me.
Re:WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
by spuz on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:46PM
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What is CBT?
WaveNet is probably modeling the source data very well. It sounds like they just need more data with emotion and inflection, rather than having source data that is optimized for monotonicity and precision.