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Meghan McDonough explores the history of, and advances in, speech synthesis and goes through the process of having her own VocaliD Voice AI persona created in an attempt to answer the question — “What makes a voice human?”.
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THE TALK THAT STARTED IT ALL...
TEDWomen
The seed for VocaliD was planted at TEDWomen when Dr. Rupal Patel exclaimed that… “Each one of us has a unique voiceprint that reflects our age, our size, even our lifestyle and personality.”
“As a speech scientist,” she continued “I’m fascinated by how the voice is produced, and I have an idea how it can be engineered.”
The international response to this TED talk brought VocaliD to life.