Google's virtual assistant now sounds less like a robot and more like a person
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/google-assistant-now-uses-deepmind-wavenet-ai-to-sound-more-human.html
In the intensifying battle to have the best voice-powered technology, Google is making its virtual assistant sound more human and less robotic.
The speech-activated Google Assistant is relying on software from DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research group under Alphabet. The technology now uses a version of DeepMind's WaveNet system for American English and Japanese, according to a blog post published on Wednesday.
Google's virtual assistant now sounds less like a robot and more like a person
Oct 4, 2017, 9:35pm UTC
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/google-assistant-now-uses-deepmind-wavenet-ai-to-sound-more-human.html
>In the intensifying battle to have the best voice-powered technology, Google is making its virtual assistant sound more human and less robotic.
>The speech-activated Google Assistant is relying on software from DeepMind, the artificial intelligence research group under Alphabet. The technology now uses a version of DeepMind's WaveNet system for American English and Japanese, according to a blog post published on Wednesday.