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317 Microsoft releases VALL-E, a new text-to-speech model that can produce speech in any voice with just 3 seconds of training

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Daniel Levi @ Startups News · 01/09/2023 08:57 EDT

Microsoft releases VALL-E, a new text-to-speech model that can produce speech in any voice with just 3 seconds of training

Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has come a long way since its early days over five decades ago. The first English text-to-speech system was invented by Japanese researcher Noriko Umeda at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan in 1968 when he generated a computer ...

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