Google just published new information about its latest advancements in voice AI. The new Tacotron sounds just like a human.
As the years have gone by the Google voice has started to sound less robotic and more like a human. At this point, the new Tacotron 2 Google voice AI is almost indistinguishable from humans.
In a recently published research paper by the people at Google, the team introduces details to the impressive speech system called Tacotron 2. In the paper, Google highlights the systems ability to speak almost identically to its human creators. The team describes the second generation speech system in the report stating, ” The Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture for speech synthesis directly from text. The system is composed of a recurrent sequence-to-sequence feature prediction network that maps character embeddings to mel-scale spectrograms, followed by a modified WaveNet model acting as a vocoder to synthesize timedomain waveforms from those spectrograms.”