Microsoft Shares Text to Speech Synthesis Language Model Vall-E

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Microsoft Shares Text to Speech Synthesis Language Model Vall-E
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Episode Summary

– Lot of news on Microsoft lately
– Can mimic voice with accent and emotion in just 3 seconds
– Trained on some 60,000 hours of English speech
– Consequences for voice actors and narrators?
– Potential of scams
– Sonantic acquired by Spotify
– Descript acquired Lyrebird in 2019 for voice-cloning
– Pairing it with something like Google translate for instant communication

Resources:

VALL-E
https://valle-demo.github.io/

Microsoft’s new VALL-E AI can capture your voice in 3 seconds
https://newatlas.com/technology/microsoft-vall-e-speech-synthesis/

Steven Tey on Twitter: “Surprised there isn’t more chatter around VALL-E This new model by @Microsoft can generate speech in any voice after only hearing a 3s sample of that voice 🤯 Demo → https://t.co/GgFO6kWKha https://t.co/JY88vf4lYc” / Twitter

Voice-imitation advance means we can’t trust what we see or hear anymore
https://newatlas.com/ai-mimic-voices-video-lyrebird/49851/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body

Microsoft Launched VALL-E, A Voice DALL-E
https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2023/01/microsoft-launched-a-voice-based-dall-e-called-vall-e.html

Descript | All-in-one video and audio editing
https://www.descript.com/home-2

Lyrebird – Descript
https://www.descript.com/lyrebird

Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices | TechCrunch

Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices

Spotify is acquiring Sonantic, the AI voice platform used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ | TechCrunch

Spotify is acquiring Sonantic, the AI voice platform used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

How A.I. restored Top Gun star Val Kilmer’s voice | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2022/05/27/how-does-val-kilmer-speak-in-top-gun-maverick-sonantic-artificial-intelligence/

VALL-E – Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers – Microsoft : singularity

VALL-E – Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers – Microsoft from singularity

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