AI can generate more natural artificial speech by including pauses
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Generating speech with different rhythms and pauses makes it sound more human-like, according to an assessment of a speech-trained AI taken from YouTube and podcasts.
Most AI text-to-speech systems are trained on data sets of practiced speech, which can output stilted and one-dimensional sound. Natural speech often displays a wide range of rhythms and patterns to express different meanings and emotions.
Now, Alexander Rudnicki at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,…
