Closed-captioning WaveNets
Channel: Gene Kogan
Date: 2016-09-09

This is the result of running DeepMind's synthesized vocal utterances through YouTube's automatic caption generator.

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Google's DeepMind first described WaveNets, deep neural networks capable of generating synthetic speech and other kinds of audio, in a blog post on Sept 8, 2016: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/

WaveNets can synthesize speech conditioned on a specific text sequence, or unconditioned, as in these six samples from the original post, where it just sounds like pseudo-English babble. What are they actually saying? Let's run them through YouTube's automatic captioning system to find out.