Baidu’s ambitious plan for ‘everyone on this planet’ to use its conversational AI DuerOS

Last month was huge for Baidu. On the same day it opened its conversational AI platform DuerOS to businesses and third parties at its first-ever AI developer conference, the Chinese search giant announced it had acquired Kitt.ai, a creator of bots for chat apps like Facebook Messenger, intelligent assistants like Alexa, and smart home appliances. […]

Baidu’s Deep Voice can quickly synthesize realistic human speech

Baidu has been quietly working on other projects besides self-driving cars at its AI center in Silicon Valley, and now it has revealed one of them to MIT’s Technology Review. Apparently, the Chinese tech titan has created a text-to-speech system called Deep Voice that’s faster and more efficient than Google’s WaveNet. The company says Deep […]