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If you're loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how people who have lost the

power of speech could get their voices back through AI,

the cool truth about the weighted blanket fad, and an 8 billion year old blast from outer space.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. I've got some

great news. Scientists have analyzed human neurosurgical recordings using a crazy

deep learning architecture and with the help of a rule-based differentiable speech synthesizer,

they were able to decode speech parameters from cortical signals.

Wow, cool, that's great.

I don't know what any of that means. Okay Okay I was kind of hoping you would say that.

So as complicated as everything I just said was it's got nothing on what these scientists were

studying the human voice. Ah, yes, that I understand.

I know the muscles and the thoughts and the neurons and everything involved in how we speak

is incredibly complex, right?

Oh, absolutely.

Obviously speaking just comes in totally naturally for

most of us. It's not something we even have to think about. But when you start to

take into account just the muscles involved, the complexity starts to spin out of control. We're not just moving our jaws in

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