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Last updated: March 7th, 2024 at 04:26 UTC+01:00 Google has announced the release of a new Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine for Wear OS 4. According to the company, it uses “decreased prosody ML models to bring faster synthesis on Wear OS devices.” Google further adds that it has tuned the new TTS engine to be “performant and reliable on low-memory devices.” With that, the TTS functionality on Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 5, and Watch 6 models should work faster and consume fewer resources, resulting in better overall system…

Ubisoft's Metroidvania platformer Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown currently has a character that's being voiced by a text-to-speech (TTS). And no one seems to know why.Thanks to an IGN report, we know that an in-game character named Kalux was voiced using TTS, a popular program amongst steamers. In a video posted by IGN, you can hear the voice for yourself whenever the main character travels anywhere on the map. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch…

Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown launches next week, but players are likely to encounter an amusing bug as they make their way through the game, . One of the game’s NPCs is voiced by a text-to-speech program, complete with the slightly robotic tones we’ve come to associate with these services.It’s not quite Siri or Alexa, but it’s close and certainly doesn’t fit the game’s Persian-inspired setting. The NPC-in-question is a tree spirit named Kalux and seems to be voiced by a TTS program and typically used by…

Meta introduced its multimodal AI translation model called SeamlessM4T in August. This tool supports almost 100 languages for text and 36 languages for speech. Now, with an updated "v2" architecture, the company is expanding the tool's capabilities to make conversational translations more spontaneous and expressive. This is a crucial step towards more authentic conversations across languages, as the lack of expressive translations has been a major challenge so far.The SeamlessM4T is designed to translate and transcribe…

Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

In the last few months, Microsoft has embarked on a mission to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) in its suite of products, ranging from consumer-focused Microsoft Office to Copilot 365 for businesses. At its latest Ignite 2023 conference, the technology giant announced several new AI-based products such as Copilot Studio, and Windows AI Studio, while also renaming Bing Chat to simply Copilot. The company also launched a text-to-speech avatar program called Azure AI Speech which can help create talking avatar…

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Text-to-speech conversion, a remarkable technology that transforms written text into spoken audio through artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP), has become a valuable tool for students, language learners, content creators, and anyone seeking to enhance their productivity. These Chrome extensions cater to diverse purposes like accessibility, education, entertainment, and communication, offering free text-to-speech solutions with voice recognition capabilities. Here are the five best Chrome…

On Friday, Microsoft revealed enhancements and added features to Bing Chat, its AI-driven chatbot. One of the key updates is…

Today, we are one step closer to the immortal celebrity future we have long been promised (since April). Meta has unveiled Voicebox, its generative text-to-speech model that promises to do for the spoken word what ChatGPT and Dall-E, respectfully, did for text and image generation.  Essentially, its a text-to-output generator just like GPT or Dall-E — just instead of creating prose or pretty pictures, it spits out audio clips. Meta defines the system as “a non-autoregressive flow-matching model trained to infill speech,…