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Microsoft's VALL-E synthesises speech from short audio clips, maintaining emotional and acoustic nuances. Applications abound, but potential misuse raises concerns.Summary
KEY POINTS:
- VALL-E replicates emotional tone and acoustic settings.
- Applications encompass text-to-speech and speech editing.
- It generates discrete audio codec codes from prompts.
- Microsoft hasn't released VALL-E's code due to potential misuse.
- Researchers propose a detection model and commit to Microsoft AI Principles.