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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio

Talking Machines Allowing people to converse with machines is a long-standing dream of human-computer interaction. The ability of computers to understand natural speech has been revolutionised in the last few years by the application of deep neural networks (e.g., Google Voice Search). However, generating speech with computers — a process usually referred to as speech synthesis or text-to-speech (TTS) — is still largely based on so-called concatenative TTS, where a very large database of short speech fragments are recorded from a single speaker and then recombined to form complete utterances. This has led to a great demand for parametric TTS, where all the information required to generate the data is stored in the parameters of the model, and the contents and characteristics of the speech can be controlled via the inputs to the model. WaveNet changes this paradigm by directly modelling the raw waveform of the audio signal, one sample at a time. Related:  enrico.a

StartPage by Ixquick Search Engine Training Tesseract · tesseract-ocr/tesseract Wiki How to use the tools provided to train Tesseract 3.03–3.04 for a new language. Important note: Before you invest time and efforts on training Tesseract, it is highly recommended to read the ImproveQuality page. Tesseract 3.04 provides a script for an easy way to execute the various phases of training Tesseract. More information on using it can be found on the tesstrain.sh page. For training Tesseract 3.00–3.02 see Training Tesseract 3.00–3.02. Questions about the training process Training Procedure Appendices Questions about the training process If you had some problems during the training process and you need help, use tesseract-ocr mailing-list to ask your question(s). PLEASE DO NOT report your problems and ask questions about training as issues! Introduction Tesseract 3.0x is fully trainable. Please check the list of languages for which traineddata is already available as of release 3.04 before embarking on training. 3rd Party training tools are also available for training. Data files required

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Reinforcement Learning for Torch: Introducing torch-twrl Introducing torch-twrl Advances in machine learning have been driven by innovations and ideas from many fields. Inspired by the way that humans learn, Reinforcement Learning (RL) is concerned with algorithms which improve with trial-and-error feedback to optimize future performance. Board games and video games often have well-defined reward functions which allow for straightforward optimization with RL algorithms. Twitter Cortex invests in novel state-of-the-art machine learning methods to improve the quality of our products. RL algorithms (or agents) aim to learn to perform complex, novel tasks through interaction with the task (or environment). Inspired by other RL frameworks, torch-twrl aims to provide: a RL framework in Lua/Torch with minimal dependencies;rapid development with well defined, modular code; andseamless integration with OpenAI’s RL benchmark framework Gym. git clone -- recursive cd torch-twrl luarocks make Enjoy torch-twrl.

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