Tag: Speech Synthesis

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    #190: Bias, Tourists, and Talking Machines

    Ian and Michael return from their summer break with the usual assortment of things to discuss, starting with media bias and the question of who gets to decide how biased the media actually is. From there they wander through coolcations, overtourism and Norwegian travels, the growing demands that data centres place on resouce consumption, and the rather less than convincing promise of instant language learning. And, naturally, there is AI-generated speech to dissect, with Ian and Michael finding the voices unnatural, giving our AI-generated contributor Emma Williams a perfect opportunity to return with another instalment of Artificial Reflections. (This episode features AI-generated content and speech)

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    #36: AI-Generated Video, Virtual Actors and Deepfakes, AI Veganism

    Ian and Michael discuss recent strides in AI-generated video, the use of people's likenesses in video and images, the "Deepfake defense" in the court of law, the concept of "AI Veganism" and the recent news of AI-generated artwork winning an art competition. 

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    #23: The Translated Episode

    In the last episode before the summer hiatus, Ian and Michael discuss translation and speech in the context of language learning, virtual voice-overs, and virtual movie actors. As an experiment, we've also included excerpts from episode 16 (No code and low code) that have been automatically translated to Spanish and French using speech-to-text (to create the transcript from the original English), machine translation, and text-to-speech!

    AI Unfiltered will be back from its summer hiatus with new episodes on August 30!

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    #17: Automating your Life

    What if you could automate all of the boring stuff and minutiae of daily life, and you could focus on the important things? Ian and Michael discuss the use of AI and the prospects of virtual personal assistants.