AI Voice: I Tried to Make My Robot Hand Talk | AI Avenue Ep 1

In this episode you’ll go on a mission alongside Craig to find Yorick, his robot hand co-host, a voice. He’ll talk to experts at the NVidia GTC conference in San Jose, people on the street, and then travel to @elevenlabsio in London.

You’ll learn how speech synthesis got its start and where it’s headed. You’ll hear about the challenges of making voices seem real, understand privacy concerns, and see the power voice gives us by augmenting our abilities.

You’ll learn about clever use cases and get the opportunity to explore the actual AI applications seen on the show, and even have the opportunity to build and deploy your own Conversational AI Agent.

# Apps

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📓 Teacher's notes: https://github.com/craigsdennis/aiave-notes

# Chapters

00:00 - Introduction to Generative Voice

00:42 - History of synthetic speech

03:55 - A-IRL - Modern challenges and use cases

05:34 - Nvidia GTC: Tour the floor of the largest AI Conference in the US

07:53 - On the Avenue: What are real people thinking

10:05 - Learn about Latency

12:14 - Take a trip to ElevenLabs London

22:20 - Grandfather and grandson break language barriers using voice translation and cloning tool

25:32 - Reflections on what we learned

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