In this episode, Chris is harassed by quite a few artificial nuisance callers, among

drug lords, Irish nurses and some random Linux Inlaws Chief Financial Officer. Based

on these examples, our two heroes discuss the history and current state of text-to-

speech (TTS) and voice recognition. We attempted to use voice recognition software in order

to produce a transcript of the show.

Shownotes:

Wavenet: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio

Tacotron: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html

DeepSpeech: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

Lyrebird / Welcome.AI: https://www.welcome.ai/lyrebird

Nvidia Tacotron 2: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2

Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org

PyTorch: https://pytorch.org

Melspectrograms: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/understanding-the-mel-spectrogram-fca2afa2ce53

GRAPHCORE: https://www.graphcore.ai

FGPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array

IBM ROMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ROMP

Google's TTS: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

Apple M1: https://www.gsmarena.com/the_apple_m1_is_the_first_armbased_chipset_for_macs_with_the_fastest_cpu_cores_and_top_igpu-news-46222.php

Secure Enclaves: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-overview-sec59b0b31ff/web

OSDU: https://www.opengroup.org/osdu/forum-homepage

Jack Kerouac's On the Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road