Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are becoming lifelines for people facing severe motor impairments. For many individuals with conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or spinal cord injuries ...

Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends ...

Recent brain-computer-interface (BCI) devices have made it possible to translate neural activity directly into text and even ...

Until then, I'll be out here celebrating every win I can find in the field, and that includes this implant spotted by Ars ...

The language capabilities of today's artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural ...

Neural text-to-speech algorithms, on the other hand, take in text, pump them through the same kinds of algorithms, but now instead of spitting out text, they’re spitting out sound, Hamilton says.

Specifically, a transformer can read vast amounts of text, spot patterns in how words and phrases relate to each other, and then make predictions about what words should come next.

"In particular, we leverage recent advances in neural text-to-speech to create and release thousands of human-quality, open-license audiobooks from the Project Gutenberg e-book collection," a team ...