Abstract: The aim of multi-speaker emotional speech synthesis is to generate speech for a designated speaker in a desired emotional state. The task is challenging due to the presence of speech ...

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Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...

Alibaba researchers have unveiled Marco-Voice, a new text-to-speech (TTS) system that brings together voice cloning and emotional speech synthesis in a single framework. With Marco-Voice, Alibaba aims ...

Our ECoG to Speech decoding framework is initially described in A Neural Speech Decoding Framework Leveraging Deep Learning and Speech Synthesis. We present a novel deep learning-based neural speech ...

Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That ...

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v3 (alpha), a new Text to Speech model designed to deliver highly expressive and realistic speech generation. This version introduces advanced features like ...

Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the ...

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Neuroscientists are striving to give a voice to people unable to speak in a fast-advancing quest to harness brainwaves to restore or enhance physical abilities. Researchers at universities across ...

Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers ...

Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with ...