Microsoft researchers unveil text-to-speech AI tool, Vall-E

Microsoft researchers have unveiled Vall-E, a text-to-speech AI model that can listen to a voice for a few seconds and then mimic that voice, including emotional tone and acoustics, to say anything. VALL-E is a “neural codec language model,” according to the researchers, that uses Meta’s EnCodec technology to evaluate a human voice as individual […]

Microsoft proposes $10 billion investment into OpenAI

Microsoft intends to invest up to $10 billion in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI in order to integrate ChatGPT into its web search engine Bing and Office products. According to sources familiar with the situation, Microsoft and other venture firms are in talks to invest a sum that would value OpenAI at $29 billion. The […]