Category: Lambda

This is pretty amazing.

This is pretty amazing.

Via Emlyn O’Regan​

Originally shared by Vincent Vanhoucke

File under ‘Big Deals’.

Neal Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age’ has a funky premise: in a future where technology had pretty much solved everything, one unsolved problem remains: generating human-sounding speech, and people called ‘ractors’ are hired to act out lectures delivered in spoken form.

For a while, it seemed actually believable that delivering human-sounding speech would be very hard, as synthesis technology consistently failed to deliver anything that would fool anyone for more than a few words.

Today the work from our colleagues at DeepMind feels like it’s leaped over the Uncanny Valley, and then some. The examples they provide sound fantastic. This is very exciting. I am really interested to hear what very long-form text sounds like, because that remains the ultimate challenge for TTS.

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/

The linux bash environment that just arrived on Windows 10 with the mega anniversary update, might just be the…

Originally shared by Gerwin Sturm

The linux bash environment that just arrived on Windows 10 with the mega anniversary update, might just be the solution for a lot of problems you could run into while developing on a windows machine.

No searching around to get all the setup files you need for git with a cygwin or mingw terminal, node and npm, python, and whatever other tools you might need, and then struggling to make them all work in the Windows environment.

Just enable the shell, install everything you need with some simple apt-get and npm commands, and you are all set to go in a couple of minutes.