Google's secretive DeepMind AI is analysing human speech to allow it to converse

Google's secretive British DeepMind division is teaching its AI to talk like a human. The groundbreaking project has already halved the quality gap between computer systems and human speech, its creator say. Called WaveNet, it is capable of creating natural-sounding synthesized speech by analyzing sound waves from the human voice - rather than focusing on the human language. Google's DeepMind claims to have an AI that produces more natural-sounding synthesized speech. Google acquired UK-based DeepMind in 2014 for 533 million, and it has since beat a professional human Go player, learned how to play the Atari game Space Invaders and has read through thousands of Daily Mail and CNN articles.