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.Or text messages that you can listen to in the voice of the people who sent them.Or the death of the audiobook business? Any book read in any voice you want.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.Or train it with the voice of the computer from TNG, pair it with ChatGPT and now I have the perfect digital assistant.