Google's Text Reader AI: Almost Perfect | Two Minute Papers #228

The paper "Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions" is available here:
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/index.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05884

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