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The vocal representations of parrots and humans in the motor networks
Researchers claim to have identified the first-ever neural circuit in the brain of a parrot for vocal control and speech articulation. The researchers showed that the premotor organisation of the vocal control pathway in the budgerigar was not affected by the presence of an audience. The network is made up of both the human sensorimotor…
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Meta Artificial Intelligence creates a speech-to-Speech translator that works in many languages
US-based technology company Meta Technologies has developed an AI model that can translate speech in one language to speech in another. The team used data to train the model to identify two matching pieces of content. The team also collected millions of hours of audio files of speech, along with human-generated translations of that speech,…
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You can use pictures and voice commands
OpenAI is rolling out a new text- to-speech model for its chat app Chatt that can generate “human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.” The model can also be used to listen to a user’s voice in other languages and translate the sound into their dialect. It has five options…
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Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech
Two teams of researchers have found that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can read speech at rates of 78 and 62 words per minute. The error rate for a limited 50-word vocabulary was 9.1% while a 125,000-word vocabulary had a 20.8% error rate. The BCIs were able to convert the brain signals into words in four months…