The Slow Death of Human Narrators as Apple Releases AI-powered Audiobooks
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 →