Voice recognition is one thing, creating natural sounding artificial voices is quite another. Lyrebird - a member of NVIDIA’s Inception startup program - uses deep learning to take this a step further, with a system that's able to listen to a human voices and generate speech that mimics the sound of the original, human, speaker. We spoke with Lyrebird co-founder Jose Solero about the benefits of this technology, and why he feels the need to educate the public about what's possible.

A Conversation with the Entrepreneur Behind the World's Most Realistic Artificial Voices - Ep. 73

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Eleni Ikoniadou is a Reader in Digital Culture and Sonic Arts at the Royal College of Art. Her research sits at the intersection of media art, theory-fiction, and technoculture, with specific attention to sound and voice. Her latest art project, Future Chorus, funded by the EPSRC Human-Data Interaction Network Plus, is a record made from remixes of AI and human lamenters. She runs Fugitive Voices for the MA Visual Communication and is a resident host on Movement radio (https://movement.radio/podcasts/fugitive-voices). As member of the art group AUDINT (http://www.audint.net/www/), with Steve Goodman (kode9) and Toby Heys, she co-edited the anthology Unsound: Undead (Urbanomic 2019) and is author of the monograph The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media and the Sonic (MIT, 2014). She is founder of MAENADS, a platform for collective research-led art projects, and founder and co-editor of the Media Philosophy Series (Rowman & Littlefield).

A Conversation with the Entrepreneur Behind the World's Most Realistic Artificial Voices - Ep. 73

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