Meta Voicebox, a generative AI model for speech generation 2023

Meta Voicebox

Meta Voicebox: Generative AI is making strides in various aspects of content creation. Now, tech behemoth Meta has deployed generative AI models for speech-related tasks. The company has unveiled Voicebox, a super tool that can help with audio editing, sampling and styling. Voicebox is the kind of technology that can aid content creators with an array of tasks, assist the visually impaired in hearing written messages, and enable people to speak in any foreign languages.

The company has claimed it has achieved a breakthrough in generative AI for speech. “We’ve developed Voicebox, the first model that can generalize to speech-generation tasks it was not specifically trained to accomplish with state-of-the-art performance,” the company wrote in its blog.

Meta Voicebox creates outputs in a variety of styles and it can create them from scratch. While the usual generative AI models produce pictures from text prompts, Voicebox produces high-quality audio clips. Presently, the model can process speech in six languages and perform tasks such as noise removal, content editing, diverse sample generation and style conversion.

Meta also said that its multipurpose generative AI models like Voicebox could render natural-sounding voices to virtual assistants and NPCs in the metaverse. The model comes with in-context text-to-speech synthesis that allows Voicebox to match audio style for text-to-speech generation from an audio sample as short as two seconds.

Meta also said that its multipurpose generative AI models like Voicebox could render natural-sounding voices to virtual assistants and NPCs in the metaverse. The model comes with in-context text-to-speech synthesis that allows Voicebox to match audio style for text-to-speech generation from an audio sample as short as two seconds.