A public radio station in Switzerland conducted an interesting experiment for a day – they used five AI-generated voices to present news and aired music that’s almost entirely composed by computers. Listeners of the French-language station Couleur 3 (Color 3) were greeted on Thursday, April 27 with a message that comes up repeatedly: “Today’s programming … Read more →
Artificial Intelligence has made a serious buzz lately, not just in the technology sector, but also with science and education. Imagine an AI bot that you can instruct to do some minor programming for you as well as create images, videos, presentations, web design, and essays for you – all of these are made possible … Read more →
Search engine giant Google has invested $300 million in Anthropic, a startup AI company from San Francisco. Microsoft has always been Google’s main competition when it comes to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since Microsoft has been investing lately in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, Google has no choice but to also pour money in what … Read more →
Speech synthesis from computers has been developed in the late 50s with a certain Noriko Umeda and company developing the first English text-to-speech system in the late 60s. Although the voiced-out words were very robotic in nature, they were nevertheless recognizable and understandable. Fast forward to today’s technology, the vocal synthesizer now uses artificial intelligence … Read more →