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Last Week in AI #186: OpenAI's new speech-to-text AI, Nvidia's generative model for realistic 3D object, Ukrainian AI startup to produce the voice of Darth Vader, and more!

OpenAI's TTS model performs much better on noisy speech, Nvidia's GET3D generates 3D meshes while trained only on 2D images, James Earl Jones signed over rights to voice work for AI reproduction

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

On September 21, OpenAI open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that enables "robust" transcription in multiple languages and translation from those languages to English. OpenAI wrote that Whisper is primarily targeted at AI researchers "studying robu…

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