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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:
  1. VALL-E replicates emotional tone and acoustic settings.
  2. Applications encompass text-to-speech and speech editing.
  3. It generates discrete audio codec codes from prompts.
  4. Microsoft hasn't released VALL-E's code due to potential misuse.
  5. Researchers propose a detection model and commit to Microsoft AI Principles.
See: VALL-E (X) (microsoft.com)

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