The hottest Speech Synthesis Substack posts right now

AI video technology made big leaps—better avatars, movement, and native audio—but it still struggles with longer, coherent storytelling because clips are short and audio, voice, and motion aren’t yet consistently coordinated.
AI is reshaping creative work and UX by automating many UI tasks and enabling highly personalized content, which pushes designers toward higher-level roles like orchestrating experiences and guiding AI outputs.
Creators need to adapt by focusing on real engagement metrics (like retention, not just clicks), ensuring character and audio consistency, and building human skills such as judgment and persuasion to work effectively with AI.

GPT-4 is a new large-scale model by OpenAI that can accept image and text inputs to produce text outputs.
PaLM-E is an embodied multimodal language model that incorporates real-world sensor data into language tasks.
Meta-black-box optimization can discover effective update rules for evolution strategies through meta-learning.

New tests show that AI struggles with real math problems, often just recognizing patterns instead of truly understanding math. This highlights that AI still has a long way to go in reasoning skills.
A new approach in medical AI allows it to work alongside doctors more effectively, improving diagnosis speed and quality while keeping human oversight. This makes it a promising tool in healthcare.
A new Russian speech dataset helps improve AI's ability to generate and enhance speech, proving that having high-quality data leads to better AI performance.

ChatGPT and similar chatbots pose risks to medicine, and the medical community needs to address this issue.
ChatGPT can produce deceptive information, such as fabricating citations for non-existent scientific papers.
AI-generated disinformation from systems like ChatGPT could have serious consequences in the medical field and strategies need to be developed to combat it.

Importance of speech synthesis and TTS for innovative voice applications
Metadata plays a crucial role in data catalogs and governance solutions
Insights from the 2020 Kaggle ML & Data Science Survey on preferred tools and libraries

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The MIT Fiasco showed issues with evaluating AI models
ML community uses various prompting techniques for AI, like chaining prompts
Using an AI model to both solve and evaluate a problem can lead to biased results

Rime Labs introduces over 200 unique English TTS voices, the most diverse ever
These voices are AI-generated and sound realistic, expanding speech possibilities
Rime offers sub-300ms latency for enterprise clients, with plans starting at $10 a month

Siri and other TTS systems sound robotic due to voice cloning and the nature of reading aloud.
Voice fatigue can occur when the same voice is used indefinitely in synthetic speech products.
Rime Labs offers a solution to voice fatigue by providing a wide variety of voices and a generative approach to creating new voices.