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Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.

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[–] FerrahWolfeh@solstice.etbr.top 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So sad that because of a number of bad people with bad intentions, such good pieces of tech are never given to people in it's entirety.

If meta ever releases this, I'm afraid it might be just a more "broken down" version of a local Google translate voice, unfortunately...

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt it's as good as they say. This is probably just hype to make their model seem really good in the news.

[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

If they actually had it, I'm pretty sure they would release a demonstration video at least - that doesn't require sharing the data or the code, so I can't imagine why they wouldn't.

Buuuut nah. It's just marketing.