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More-natural prosody for synthesized speech

Amazon just solved the biggest problem in AI speech synthesis: making voices sound actually human.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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This breakthrough in prosody transfer could accelerate enterprise adoption of AI voice assistants and automated customer service, addressing the uncanny valley problem that has limited deployment at scale.

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  1. Prosody transfer technique reduces source speaker leakage

  2. Prosody selection model improves semantic content matching

  3. Published by Amazon Science research team

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Publisher excerpt: Prosody transfer technique addresses the problem of “source speaker leakage”, while prosody selection model better matches prosody to semantic content.
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