Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.

Speech synthesis using neural networks has revolutionised the generation of naturalistic and intelligible speech from text. Contemporary systems integrate advanced deep learning architectures that ...

On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific ...