Facebook's 'polyglot' AI speaks English, German, and Spanish

But they hold particular promise in the text-to-speech (TTS) realm, as evidenced by systems like Google's WaveNet, Baidu's DeepVoice, and WaveLoop. Another case in point: an artificially intelligent (AI) 'polyglot' system created by researchers at Facebook that's able to, given voice data, produce new speech samples in multiple languages. The team describes their work in a paper ("Unsupervised Polyglot Text-to-Speech") published on the preprint server Arxiv.org. "The … [AI] is able to transfer a voice, which was presented as a sample in a source language, into one of several target languages," they wrote. "[It can] take a sample of a speaker talking in one language and have [them] … speak as a native speaker in another language."