December 19, 2024

Zero-shot Voice Conversion: Comparing HierSpeech++ to Other Basemodels | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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AR/VR

ChatGPT adds more PC and Mac app integrations, getting closer to piloting your computer

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has expanded the number of applications its desktop apps can work with, including allowing Advanced Voice Mode to work with other apps, and is moving closer to ChatGPT using computers.  The desktop app introduced integrations in November with an initial four applications. During Day 11 of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event, OpenAI announced several

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Conducting Ablation Studies to Verify the Effectiveness of Each Component in HierSpeech++ | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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AR/VR

Biometric NFTs: A Fresh Approach to Securing Digital Identity

As we spend more time online—collecting digital goodies, and exploring virtual worlds—we might need better ways to prove who we are and protect what we own. Passwords and security questions don’t always cut it anymore. That’s where a new idea comes in: Biometric NFTs. These special tokens combine blockchain technology with unique parts of your biology, like your face or fingerprint, to keep your digital assets safe. What Are Biometric NFTs? An NFT is like

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Software

The 7 Objective Metrics We Conducted for the Reconstruction and Resynthesis Tasks | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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How We Used the LibriTTS Dataset to Train the Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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SpongeBob SquarePants is the latest icon to join the UEFN platform

SpongeBob SquarePants and Bikini Bottom have joined Fortnite via its UGC platform, Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Paramount Game Studios and marketing agency Zoned have collaborated on a series of four experiences based on the popular animated series, bringing SpongeBob, Patrick and the rest to the Fortnite audience. The four games, which Zoned developed with Alliance Studios, span several familiar, popular genres. They include: Red vs Blue, in which participants attack each other with jelly blasters

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Style Prompt Replication: A Simple Trick That Helped Us In Our Journey | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 2.1 Neural Codec Language Models and 2.2 Non-autoregressive Models 2.3 Diffusion Models and 2.4 Zero-shot Voice Cloning 3 Hierspeech++ and 3.1 Speech Representations 3.2 Hierarchical Speech Synthesizer 3.3 Text-to-Vec 3.4 Speech Super-resolution 3.5 Model Architecture 4 Speech Synthesis Tasks 4.1 Voice Conversion and 4.2 Text-to-Speech 4.3 Style Prompt Replication 5 Experiment and Result, and Dataset 5.2 Preprocessing and 5.3 Training 5.4 Evaluation Metrics 5.5 Ablation

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AI

From Prototype to Production: Enhancing LLM Accuracy

Implementing evaluation frameworks to optimize accuracy in real-world applications Mariya Mansurova · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 20 min read · 6 hours ago — Image created by DALL-E 3 Building a prototype for an LLM application is surprisingly straightforward. You can often create a functional first version within just a few hours. This initial prototype will likely provide results that look legitimate and be a good tool to demonstrate your approach. However,

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Robotics

Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed

Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron. With a signal processing speed of 10 GBaud — a billion times faster than its biological counterparts — the new laser graded neuron could lead to breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and other types of advanced computing. The body contains various types of nerve cells, including graded neurons that encode information through continuous

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