Google DeepMind announces WaveNet

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Announced WaveNet — a neural network that directly generates raw audio waveforms

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Showed that autoregressive generation extends to audio. The foundation for later TTS and audio generation

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Officialdeepmind.googlehttps://deepmind.google/blog/wavenet-a-generative-model-for-raw-audio/

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