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Google acquires debate singularity outfit Phonetic Arts, skeleton to make use of Jack Donaghy’s voice for all
Don’t ever knock Google for not reinvesting a little of which cheddar it’s stacking in Mountain View. Barely dual months after pulling the trigger upon BlindType, El Goog has now sunk an undisclosed volume of money into Phonetic Arts, described as a debate singularity company formed in Cambridge, England. Naturally, Google’s been toiling around the clock in an effort to better the debate technologies, as well as it looks as if it could be cutting out utterly a few months (or years) of work with this a single purchase. Phonetic Arts was known for being upon the “slicing corner of debate singularity, delivering technology that generates natural computer debate from small samples of available voice,” as well as you get a sense which a group will be since clearance badges to come in Google’s London-based engineering trickery shortly. The company’s own Mike Cohen is anticipating which this will help us “move the little faster towards that Star Trek destiny” — frankly, we’re hoping to have Jack Donaghy’s voice become a de facto standard in underneath the year. We hear a little dudes at 30 Rock are already toying with a antecedent…