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WaveNet

Published
Sep 12, 2016

WaveNet is an AI model developed by Google DeepMind (United States), first published in September 2016. It works in the speech domain, on tasks such as text-to-speech (tts), speech synthesis and audio generation.

Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. It was trained on roughly 11.5B datapoints.

The reference paper has 8,196 citations.

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Organization
Google DeepMind
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Speech
Task
Text-to-speech (TTS), Speech synthesis, Audio generation
Dataset size
11.5B
Citations
8,196
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