VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers
Wow, people who lose their voice could basically talk again through text to speech as long as they have previous recordings or themselves.<p>Or text messages that you can listen to in the voice of the people who sent them.<p>Or the death of the audiobook business? Any book read in any voice you want.<p>Or maybe a form of extreme compression, voice is converted to text with Whisper, sent over the wire as text, and re-created with the same voice on the receiver.<p>Or train it with the voice of the computer from TNG, pair it with ChatGPT and now I have the perfect digital assistant.