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April 3, 2018 05:03 pm PDT

Google's talking AI is indistinguishable from humans

Tacotron 2 is Google's new text-to-speech system, and as heard in the samples below, it sounds indistinguishable from humans.

From Quartz:

The system is Googles second official generation of the technology, which consists of two deep neural networks. The first network translates the text into a spectrogram (pdf), a visual way to represent audio frequencies over time. That spectrogram is then fed into WaveNet, a system from Alphabets AI research lab DeepMind, which reads the chart and generates the corresponding audio elements accordingly.

Tacotron 2 or Human?

In the following examples, one is generated by Tacotron 2, and one is the recording of a human, but which is which?
That girl did a video about Star Wars lipstick.
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2
She earned a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University.
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2
George Washington was the first President of the United States.
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I'm too busy for romance.
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Soundwave image by T-flex/Shutterstock.


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