Meta introduces speech generation AI model Voicebox
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) introduced Voicebox, its generative AI model for text to speech that can help with audio editing, sampling and styling.
The Facebook-parent said Voicebox can produce high quality audio clips and edit pre-recorded audio â such as removing car horns or a dog barking â while preserving the content and style of the audio.
The model is also multilingual and can produce speech in six languages.
Voicebox is the latest in the line of AI models. Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI's ChatGPT became famous for text related content, while Dall-E for image generation.
Meta said that using an audio sample which could be as short as two seconds, Voicebox can match the audio style and use it for text-to-speech generation. Voicebox can also recreate a portion of speech which was interrupted by noise or replace misspoken words without having to re-record an entire speech.
In addition, when given a speech sample from a person and a passage of text in English, French, German, Spanish, Polish or Portuguese, Voicebox can produce a reading of the text in any of these languages, even when the sample speech and the text are in different languages.
The AI model can also generate speech which is more representative of how people talk in the real world and in the six languages mentioned.
Meta noted that in the future, generative AI models such as Voicebox could give natural-sounding voices to virtual assistants and non-player-characters in the metaverse. It could allow visually impaired people to hear written messages from friends read by AI in their voices, give creators new tools to make and edit audio tracks for videos, and much more.
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