Google Wavenet
DeepMind generative model (2016) that synthesizes realistic raw audio waveforms, improving speech and audio generation.
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio, by DeepMind
In September 2016, researchers at Google DeepMind published WaveNet, a deep generative model that synthesises raw audio waveforms sample-by-sample using dilated causal convolutions. In evaluations on English and Mandarin speech, WaveNet reduced the gap between human speech and machine synthesis by more than 50 per cent compared with the best previous text-to-speech systems.
DeepMind Technologies Founded
Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind Technologies in London in 2010, establishing an independent research laboratory with the stated goal of developing general-purpose artificial intelligence grounded in neuroscience.