The Untold Story of Tacotron & The Replication Crisis

In 2018, Tacotron-2 emerged as a catalyst for the resurgence of the Text-to-Speech (TTS) industry. It stunned the world when Google commercialized it as Google Duplex and fueled a new wave of TTS companies like PlayHT, Resemble, Sonantic, and WellSaid. For the first time, Tacotron-2 showed that it was possible to synthesize truly life-like speech!