Can You Tell the Difference Between Joe Rogan and Joe Faux-GAN?

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2 min readJun 18, 2019

In the news we have:

  • 💡An update on the world’s biggest conversational AI platform no one knows about
  • 📚How AI is helping students learn
  • 🤓Hear yourself speak another language you don’t actually know
  • ✍Create English poems with AI
  • 💬Voice cloning: can you tell the difference?

Smarter Conversations

Xiaoice gains further commercial traction
Microsoft said on Thursday that its flagship AI platform Xiaoice (“shi-OW-ice”) has gained commercial traction in sectors like voice, painting and writing, with its chatbot attracting 120 million active users on a monthly basis and 50 billion chats worldwide.
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This AI quizbot is helping students to learn
A chatbot researchers have dubbed “QuizBot” can be significantly more effective than flashcards in helping students learn and retain information.
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Under the Hood

Google’s Translatotron can translate speech in the speaker’s voice
Google is showing off Translatotron, a first-of-its-kind translation model that can directly convert speech from one language into another while maintaining a speaker’s voice and cadence.
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Numbers That Matter

Adobe says 91% of business decision makers investing in voice today
Check out this great survey from Adobe which looks at how business decision makers are investing voice tech.
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Toys to Try

Use this cutting-edge AI text generator to write stories, poems, news articles, and more
TalkToTransformer offers an accessible version of OpenAI’s text generator. Try it out … well worth it.
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Learn From the Pros

Faux Rogan
Deep learning engineers at Dessa built a model to replicate Joe Rogan’s voice to showcase current AI techniques.
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