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Microsoft's AI speech generator achieves human parity but is too dangerous for the public


Leveraging Vall-E's groundwork, the new AI voice tool integrates two major enhancements that greatly improve performance. Grouped code modeling allows Microsoft to better organize codec codes, resulting...

Too Real: Microsoft has developed a new iteration of its neural codec language model, Vall-E, that surpasses previous efforts in terms of naturalness, speech robustness, and speaker similarity. When Redmond claims the AI tool achieves human parity, they mean Vall-E 2 performed better than ground truth samples in robustness, similarity, and naturalness. Microsoft said Vall-E 2 is purely a research project, adding that it has no plans to incorporate the tech into a consumer product or release the tool to the general public.

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