Google is rolling out new voices for the Google Assistant in nine languages across the world. The voices are rendered using WaveNet technology from Google's artificial intelligence division.
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The Chinese search giant has built on DeepMind's Wavenet and created a version of the algorithm that can be trained in a matter of hours and perform faster than real-time human speech.
Google's DeepMind division is famous for its artificial intelligence work. Now the team has developed a new way of creating speech, that's better and more realistic sounding that everything else.