In the tangible future, humans will be interfacing their flesh with chips. Therefore, perhaps we should not have been shocked when Microsoft’s researchers appeared to have hastened a desperate future.
It was interestingly innocent and so very scientific. The headline of the researcher’s article read “Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers.”
What do you think this may possibly mean? Is there a newer, faster method for a machine to record spoken words?
The abstract by the researchers got off to a good start. It employs several words, expressions, and acronyms that many layman’s language models would find unfamiliar.
It explains why VALL-E is the name of the neural codec language model. This name must be intended to soothe you. What could be terrifying about a technology that resembles the adorable little robot from a sentimental movie?
Well, this perhaps: “VALL-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt.”
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