[R] WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant • r/MachineLearning

Wow, I remember reading the original article and wondering how many iterations of hardware it would take to make the model real-time. Google went from generating 0.2 seconds of audio in 1 second to 20 seconds of audio, that's an impressive 2 orders of magnitude improvement. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if in a few years we have a real-time model with a MOS equal to (or surpassing?) human speech.