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Largest Text-To-Speech AI Model Yet Shows 'Emergent Abilities'
Devin Coldeway reports via TechCrunch: Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits "emergent" qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. The breakthrough could be what the technology needs to escape the unca...
Devin Coldeway reports via TechCrunch: Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits "emergent" qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. As it turns out, the medium-sized model showed the jump in capability the team was looking for, not necessarily in ordinary speech quality (it is reviewed better but only by a couple points) but in the set of emergent abilities they observed and measured. Jennie squealed, bouncing on her toes with uncontained glee.- Foreign words:"Mr. Henry, renowned for his mise en place, orchestrated a seven-course meal, each dish a piece de resistance.- Paralinguistics (i.e. readable non-words):"Shh, Lucy, shhh, we mustn't wake your baby brother," Tom whispered, as they tiptoed past the nursery.- Punctuations: She received an odd text from her brother: 'Emergency @ home; call ASAP!
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