{"id":76134,"date":"2021-07-26T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76134"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:40:29","slug":"ai-voice-actors-sound-more-human-than-ever-hao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/07\/26\/ai-voice-actors-sound-more-human-than-ever-hao\/","title":{"rendered":"AI voice actors sound more human than ever [Hao]"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI voice actors sound more human than ever \u2014and they\u2019re ready to hire<\/a><\/strong>— from technologyreview.com by Karen Hao
\nA new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a \u201990s US infomercial. WellSaid Labs describes what clients can expect from its \u201ceight new digital voice actors!\u201d Tobin is \u201cenergetic and insightful.\u201d Paige is \u201cpoised and expressive.\u201d Ava is \u201cpolished, self-assured, and professional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each one is based on a real voice actor, whose likeness (with consent) has been preserved using AI. Companies can now license these voices to say whatever they need. They simply feed some text into the voice engine, and out will spool a crisp audio clip of a natural-sounding performance.
\n…
\nBut the rise of hyperrealistic fake voices isn\u2019t consequence-free. Human voice actors, in particular, have been left to wonder what this means for their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

And below are a couple of somewhat related items:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s latest voice interoperability move undermines Google<\/strong> <\/a>— from protocol.com by Janko Roettgers
\nWith a new toolkit, Amazon is making it easier to build devices that run multiple voice assistants \u2014 weakening one of Google’s key arguments against licensing the Google Assistant for such scenarios.<\/em><\/p>\n

People should be able to pick whatever assistant they prefer for any given task, simply by invoking different words, Rubenson said. “We think it’s critical that customers have choice and flexibility,” he said. “Each will have their own strengths and capabilities.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Protocol Next Up <\/strong><\/a>— from protocol.com by Janko Roettgers
\nDefining the future of tech and entertainment with Janko Roettgers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Voice is becoming a true developer ecosystem.\u00a0Amazon now has more than 900,000 registered Alexa developers, who collectively have built over 130,000 Alexa skills. And those skills are starting to show up in more and more places: “We now have hundreds of physical products” with Alexa built in, Alexa Voice Service & Alexa Skills VP Aaron Rubenson told me this week.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI voice actors sound more human than ever \u2014and they\u2019re ready to hire— from technologyreview.com by Karen Hao A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos. Excerpt: The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm of a \u201990s US infomercial. WellSaid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,556,356,174,8,286,18,275,434,501,215,98,210,533,63,408,23,133,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-textbooks","category-dramatheater","category-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-elearning","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-google","category-mediafilm","category-multimedia","category-online-media","category-the-downsides-of-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76138,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134\/revisions\/76138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}