Abstract: Current emotional text-to-speech tasks have achieved high-quality emotional speech by incorporating emotion modules into text-to-speech models. However, there has been limited in-depth ...

I recently discovered a National Semiconductor Digitalker IC in my collection. This one is packaged in a yellow box supplied by RS Componenets in the UK. I also have 2 of the Digitalker speech ROMS.

Today I learned that WiFi and Bluetooth LE could NOT be used simultaneously on Arduino boards featuring the ESP32-based u-blox NINA-W102 wireless module, impacting the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect, ...

Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.

Alibaba researchers have unveiled Marco-Voice, a new text-to-speech (TTS) system that brings together voice cloning and emotional speech synthesis in a single framework. With Marco-Voice, Alibaba aims ...

On August 26, 2025, Microsoft released VibeVoice, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model built for long-form, multi-speaker audio — think scripted podcasts, training modules, and dialogue-heavy ...

This is an evolving repo for the survey: Towards Controllable Speech Synthesis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey. Text-to-speech (TTS) has advanced from generating ...

The hardware that went into this Arduino gaming console is just fine. But the coding that produced this game called Twisted SNAKE is beyond compare. [Rodot] has programmed several games for the ...

Telling a story requires various emotional ups and downs as well as pauses. Preparing a parallel corpus for emotional voice conversion is often costly and impractical ...