Is It a Human or Computer Talking? Google Blurs the Lines

Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google's newest project, however, could change that.Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people builds on two of the company's most recent text-to-speech projects, the original Tacotron and WaveNet.
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Tacotron 2 pairs the text-mapping abilities of its predecessor with the speaking prowess of WaveNet for an end result that is, frankly, a bit unsettling. It works by taking