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What are AI voice generators?

AI voice technology, also known as voice synthesis or text-to-speech, is a field of artificial intelligence that focuses on creating human-like speech using high-tech methods. Through a combination of advanced algorithms and machine learning, AI voices can interpret and convert written text into spoken words, offering a revolutionary way for computers and other electronic devices to interact with users through speech.

Though computer voices started off rather crude and basic (think “Shall we play a game?” from the 1983 film “Wargames”), the field has advanced rapidly in just the last decade. The technology has improved its ability to understand and emulate the subtleties of human speech, capturing nuances that have resulted in remarkably lifelike and expressive AI-generated voices. Continue reading from Podcastle

Neural Text to Speech

NTTS is a type of speech synthesis that uses artificial neural networks to generate natural-sounding speech from text. It involves training a neural network, which is a computer architecture modeled on the human brain, on large amounts of speech data and then using the network to generate audio by converting texts into a sequence of acoustic features. The resulting speech can be highly expressive and used in a wide range of applications, including virtual assistants, audiobooks, and language learning tools, among others.

For a long time, TTS systems were known to generate robotic and monotonous-sounding speech, but recent advances in neural voices have led to significant improvements in the quality and naturalness of synthetic speech. NTTS systems have revolutionized voice synthesis with the power to generate realistic-sounding, high-quality audio with proper prosody, pitch, rhythm, and intonation. Continue reading from Murf Resources