![]() The ability to generate natural-sounding speech has long been a core challenge for computer programs that transform text into spoken words. ![]() Introduced last week, Lyrebird’s speech synthesis can generate thousands of sentences per second-significantly faster than existing methods-and mimic just about any voice, an advancement that raises ethical questions about how the technology might be used and misused. Montreal-based start-up Lyrebird is looking to change that with an artificially intelligent system that learns to mimic a person’s voice by analyzing speech recordings and the corresponding text transcripts as well as identifying the relationships between them. ![]() Even the most natural-sounding computerized voices-whether it’s Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa-still sound like, well, computers.
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