Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, January 10th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Well it seems as though once again my instinct to investigate deeper into a topic was perfectly time.

Microsoft has unveiled Vol E.

A text-to-speech AI model trained on 60,000 hours of English speech that can simulate a person's voice from just three seconds of sample audio.

Quoting Aris Technica.

Once it learns a specific voice, Volly can synthesise audio of that person saying anything and do it in a way that

attempts to preserve the speaker's emotional tone. Its creators speculate that

Volley could be used for high quality text to speech applications,

speech editing where a recording of a person could be edited and changed from a text transcript,

making them say something they originally didn't,

and audio content creation when combined with other generative AI models like GPT 3.

Microsoft calls Vol E a neural codic language model,

and it builds off of a technology called Encodic,

which Meta announced in October 2022.

Unlike other text-to-speech methods that typically synthesize speech by manipulating waveforms,

volley generates discrete audio-coding codes from text and acoustic

prompts.

It basically analyzes how person sounds, breaks that information into discrete components called tokens, thanks to Encoddick,

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