#syntheticspeech

Blade Runner – future of AI?

There is a person who has read in Siri.

Early reflections on artificial speech in pop culture. First attempts to synthesize speech date back to the 18th century. How will the modern world reflect on AI?

'The official name for this type of voice building is “unit selection” or “concatenative speech synthesis.” Ward describes it as “a little like a ransom note,” but saying it’s like a ransom note, where letters are chopped up and pasted back together to form new sentences, is a radical oversimplification of how we make language.'

'Google’s system is still based on real voice input. But instead of chopping up recordings, it learns from them, then independently creates its own sounds in a variety of voices. '

Samantha, she even has a breath. Why do we want to make the machines sound like us?

HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"