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Google has developed a text-to-speech artificial intelligence system that has articulation skills similar to humans.

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• The system is called Tacotron 2. It delivers an AI-generated computer speech that almost matches with the voice of humans.
• The system first creates a spectrogram of the text, a visual representation of how the speech should sound.
• That mage is then put through Google’s WaveNet algorithm, which uses the image and brings AI closer than ever to mimicking human speech.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence displayed by machines and artificially created systems. This term is used when a machine mimics cognitive functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as learning and problem solving.

Source: The Hindu