KT, a major major telecom company in South Korea, has restored the voices of eight patients with Lou Gehrig's disease using artificial intelligence-based speech synthesis technology. Patients can communicate with their friends and family members using a smartphone app that converts written text into their voices within a second. Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a neurodegenerative disease that damages nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It can eventually affect patients' movements including walking and swallowing due to the loss of voluntary muscle control. Patients can lose their voices as the muscles of their tongues weaken.

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The quality of AI-generated voices has improved rapidly in recent years, but there are still aspects of human speech that escape synthetic imitation. Sure, AI actors can deliver smooth corporate voiceovers for presentations and adverts, but more complex performances -- a convincing rendition of Hamlet, for example -- remain out of reach. Sonantic, an AI voice startup, says it's made a minor breakthrough in its development of audio deepfakes, creating a synthetic voice that can express subtleties like teasing and flirtation. The company says the key to its advance is the incorporation of non-speech sounds into its audio; training its AI models to recreate those small intakes of breath -- tiny scoffs and half-hidden chuckles -- that give real speech its stamp of biological authenticity. "We chose love as a general theme," Sonantic co-founder and CTO John Flynn tells The Verge.

Although word-level prosody modeling in neural text-to-speech (TTS) has been investigated in recent research for diverse speech synthesis, it is still challenging to control speech synthesis manually without a specific reference. This is largely due to lack of word-level prosody tags. In this work, we propose a novel approach for unsupervised word-level prosody tagging with two stages, where we first group the words into different types with a decision tree according to their phonetic content and then cluster the prosodies using GMM within each type of words separately. This design is based on the assumption that the prosodies of different type of words, such as long or short words, should be tagged with different label sets. Furthermore, a TTS system with the derived word-level prosody tags is trained for controllable speech synthesis. Experiments on LJSpeech show that the TTS model trained with word-level prosody tags not only achieves better naturalness than a typical FastSpeech2 model, but also gains the ability to manipulate word-level prosody.

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Microsoft continues to focus on accessibility in new Windows 11 features and has now introduced two new more natural-sounding voices called Jenny and Aria. The new voices are part of Microsoft's accessibility features for Windows 11's built-in Narrator screen-reading app that can be used to read out text from websites, email and documents. The feature relies on Microsoft's work on neural text-to-speech synthesis for on-device processing. The two new voices, Jenny and Aria, will be offered when Narrator is first launched, which can be done by pressing the Windows key Ctrl Enter. It can also be configured to launch automatically at start up.

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This paper presents our MSXF TTS system for Task 3.1 of the Audio Deep Synthesis Detection (ADD) Challenge 2022. We use an end to end text to speech system, and add a constraint loss to the system when training stage. The end to end TTS system is VITS, and the pre-training self-supervised model is wav2vec 2.0. And we also explore the influence of the speech speed and volume in spoofing. The faster speech means the less the silence part in audio, the easier to fool the detector. We also find the smaller the volume, the better spoofing ability, though we normalize volume for submission. Our team is identified as C2, and we got the fourth place in the challenge.