From text-to-speech (TTS) neural vocoders and speech-to-text (STT) Whisper architectures to zero-shot voice cloning, latency optimization, conversational agents, ethics, consent, and hybrid audio engineering. Master practical generative voice without synthetic uncanny valley fails.
Foundations & Acoustic Architecture
- 1 TTS, STT, and Voice Cloning: The Three Mental Models of Speech AI Demystify speech AI across text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and zero-shot voice cloning. Learn how mel-spectrograms, neural vocoders, and speaker embeddings replace robotic concatenative synthesis in production. Scheduled · January 8, 2027