Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.
I didn’t watch it, but wasn’t that about llama? That’s text generation, not speech generation.
Speech has more implications if it can replicate someone’s voice. Imagine getting a ransom voice mail from your child.
That doesn’t happen with text generation the same way.