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Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by coryfklein on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:43PM (#16692559)
Google also announced today their Tacotron engine which features new prosody modeling speech generation. It allows them to generate speech that mimics personal intonation, accents, and rhythm, effectively mimicking an individuals "expression" in their speech.

HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691197

Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by vosper on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:19PM (#16692819)
I find it amusing that here we have all the corporatey buzzwords - "DeepMind WaveNet Technology" - but the other thing is called Tacotron.
Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by gcb0 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:07PM (#16693652)
if they named themselves DeepMind WaveNet Blockchain, they could have acquired Googlebet* by now.

* that's how i call google/alphabet when it doesn't matter which side of the tax-avoiding entity i am referring to.

Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by VVyattPrentice on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:59PM (#16693920)
goophabet?
Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by rmorey on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:26PM (#16694076)
Alphoogle™
Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by alttab on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:25AM (#16697874)
Bless you
Re:Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet T... by jjeaff on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:05PM (#16693636)
They also announced their new fluerosinth-ai amplitudinal speech to text deep-cloudmind product, although I can't find a reference link...