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Advancements in Synthetic Data and Speech Generation Technology
The speaker discusses the advancements in creating synthetic data for audio modeling and the impressive feat of learning mostly from text with minimal speech data. The technology showcased, while not perfect, demonstrates significant improvement in speech generation. The transparency in demos, displaying both successful and challenging instances, was appreciated. The surprise in achieving faster, better, and cheaper models simultaneously was highlighted. The discussion also includes the ongoing evaluation of audio quality improvement in fine-tuning and the challenges faced in gathering diverse and sufficient data for the process.