Tag Archives: voice syntheses

Several years ago I used to travel for work quite a bit driving my car. Although I prefer reading books rather than listening to audiobooks I tried a few of them and in a little while I was hooked. The voice was clearly one of a professional reader, an actor, …

One of the big issues in Digital Transformation is how to leverage technology to transform the business. The tricky aspect that needs to be faced is that through the transformation you are taking your “business” into the digital space, drastically reducing transaction cost. This impact the end user (customer) price …

In the last few weeks I have flown a Cessna 172. I started from Italy for a round the world tour, so far I have reached Iran and I have enjoyed amazing landscapes from the green hills of Lebanon, the many islands in Greece to the deserts of Saudi Arabia. …

I had the fortune through my professional life to follow the progress in voice syntheses. Forty years ago hearing a computer speaking was something amazing and you couldn’t have any doubt that was a synthetic voice. In forty years that voice has progressed so much that today it ay trick …

Once upon a time we used to say “read my lips”. Well those times will be gone soon. Say thanks to AI and Deep Learning. Several researchers teams around the world have been working on rendering lips movements and animating the facial expressions to be in synch with the words …

Technology is opening up unexpected possibilities that in turns may lead to undesired results. This is surely the case with the results obtained in a collaboration between Princeton and Adobe: the editing of voice messages. The joint team has created a voice editor, VoCo, that works exactly like a text editor. With …

I was fortunate to witness the evolution of computer “voice”.  Back in the 80ies I sat close to researchers at CSELT, the research centre, now disappeared,  of the Telecommunications Company in Italy, working on making a computer talk. I remember it was a metallic voice, quite far from a human …