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'The Trojan Teddy Bear': The promise and peril of childhood in the age of AI

AI is moving beyond chatbots and into toys, dolls, and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert ...
IEEE

Deep Hidden Semi-Markov Model-Based Speech Synthesis

Abstract: This paper proposes a speech synthesis technique based on a neural sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) model that incorporates the structure of hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs). Although Seq2Seq ...