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Google’s DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough

  • DeepMind system generates soundwaves to mimic human voices
  • Performed 50 percent better than existing technology
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Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent.

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