Text-to-Speech (TTS)
What is Text-to-Speech (TTS)?
Text-to-Speech is an AI technology that converts written text into spoken audio. It allows computers to read text aloud using synthetic voices, making digital content accessible through audio. This matters because it helps people with visual impairments, enables hands-free interaction with devices, and makes content more engaging through voice.
Technical Details
Modern TTS systems use deep learning architectures like Tacotron, WaveNet, or Transformer-based models that generate mel-spectrograms from text, then convert them to raw audio waveforms using vocoders. These neural networks are trained on large datasets of human speech to produce natural-sounding synthetic voices.
Real-World Example
In ChatGPT, you can enable voice conversations where the AI's text responses are converted to speech using TTS technology, allowing you to have natural spoken dialogues with the assistant instead of just reading text.
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