Microsoft's VALL-E AI can mimic any voice from a short audio sample
The team shows exactly how well this works on the VALL-E Github page. For each phrase they want the AI to"speak," they have a three-second prompt from the speaker to imitate, a"ground truth" of the same speaker saying another phrase for comparison, a"baseline" conventional text-to-speech synthesis and the VALL-E sample at the end. are mixed, with some sounding machine-like and others being surprisingly realistic.
To improve the model, Microsoft plans to scale up its training data"to improve the model performance across prosody, speaking style, and speaker similarity perspectives." It's also exploring ways to reduce words that are unclear or missed. Microsoft elected to not make the code open source, possibly due to the risks inherent with AI that can put words in someone's mouth. It added that it would follow its"Microsoft AI Principals" on any further development.
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