WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech – TechCrunch

WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech – TechCrunch

WellSaid Labs, whose tools produce synthetic speech that could be mistaken for reality, raised $ 10 million for the Series A to help grow the business. The company’s homemade text-to-speech engine works faster than real-time, producing natural-sounding clips of pretty much any length, from quick snippets to hour-long readings. WellSaid emerged from the Allen Institute … Read more

Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

State health officials learned from the data that significant numbers of residents died after being rushed to hospitals. The State Health Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, had already known in June that officials in his department believed the data was good enough to be included in the report, said two people with knowledge of the discussions. … Read more