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Siri could feature faster & more natural responses thanks to Apple researchers

Apple Intelligence researchers are proposing a new approach to text-to-speech that would make Siri quicker to respond. That might, though, also make conversations flow more naturally.

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Using the new proposals, Siri could respond to users more quickly

Apple may have lost the odd AI researcher, but it continues to publish significant papers on the topic. Previously it has published about limiting AI from taking actions a user didn’t approve, and examining how to prevent hallucinations.

Now in a study called “Principled Coarse-Grained Acceptance for Speculative Decoding in Speech,” researchers from Apple and Tel Aviv University, have focused on text-to-speech applications.

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