Will TTS and STT benefit from the AI boom?

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I was thinking about all the new booming AI applications and wondered how it will affect Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text. Personally I hope for better TTS than anything, and for a free one at that but API calls have a cost. Also wondering how TTS could affect the Audiobook market if it became good enough.

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On your first point, there's some really good results from this paper:

Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02111

Website with examples: https://valle-demo.github.io/

For your second question, Apple is already rolling out AI-narrated audiobooks. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/apple-rolls-out-ai-n...

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