We are currently at the stage where AI text-to-speech (TTS) can generate voices that sound as natural as human speech. There are many use cases out there and many AI companies offering these voices in a multitude of languages, dialects, speaking styles, and personas. But that doesn’t mean that the Read more…
When I was asked to be Technical Program Chair for Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam, I had no idea of the amount of work involved in this task. But after months of hard work, together with Martin Cooke (Ikerbasque, Spain), Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), and Antoine Serrurier (ISCA, Read more…
The number of companies that are producing AI Voices (also called Text-to-Speech or TTS or Speech Synthesis Voices) has grown astronomically over the last few years. Thanks to state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, LLMs, and heaps of training data, they can produce voices that are almost indistinguishable from human speech. In Read more…
Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis has been an area of research for several decades now. As the name suggests, text serves as the input and a speech waveform is produced as output. In the last few years the use of TTS systems in real-world applications has become ubiquitous. You just have to Read more…