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15 Feb Giving Watson a personality

Posted at 12:27h in Education, InfoGraphics, Technology, The Arts by Parker

If your supercomputer is going on jeopardy, how do you give it an interesting voice and an appealing face? That’s the problem that confronted the Automata Studio and technology artist Joshua Davis, hired by IMB to give Watson personality.

If you can’t see this video, try here.

H/T: Nathan Yau.

Tags:
Andy Aaron, Automata Studios, IBM Watson, Joshua Davis, Nathan Yau, text to speech


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