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Google Assistant is launching its first celebrity voice cameo today, starting with the silky-smooth voice of John Legend. For a limited time, the Grammy-winning artist will sing “Happy Birthday” to you, tell you the weather, and answer questions like “Who is Chrissy Teigen?” everywhere Google Assistant is available, including iOS and Android devices.
John Legend is one of six new Google Assistant voices that were previewed at Google I/O 2018 where the company gave a preview of its speech synthesis model WaveNet. Powered by Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence, WaveNet works by sampling human speech and directly modeling audio waveforms from it, creating more realistic-sounding voices. “WaveNet allowed us to shorten the studio...
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Google Assistant is launching its first celebrity voice cameo today, starting with the silky-smooth voice of John Legend. For a limited time, the Grammy-winning artist will sing “Happy Birthday” to you, tell you the weather, and answer questions like “Who is Chrissy Teigen?” everywhere Google Assistant is available, including iOS and Android devices.
John Legend is one of six new Google Assistant voices that were previewed at Google I/O 2018 where the company gave a preview of its speech synthesis model WaveNet. Powered by Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence, WaveNet works by sampling human speech and directly modeling audio waveforms from it, creating more realistic-sounding voices. “WaveNet allowed us to shorten the studio...
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