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This capability could be leveraged to build artificial prosthetics or brain-machine interfaces capable of producing synthetic speech, which could benefit a range of patients.

Advanced A.I. systems known as “text-to-speech models” — because they convert text to natural-sounding synthetic speech — are just beginning to streamline this process.

Of course, the through line as always is Vader’s iconic voice, still done by the 91-year-old James Earl Jones, though the aging actor was aided in some way by a synthetic speech generator — making this portrayal the most cyborg Vader yet.

The platform combines a number of discrete technologies — including speech recognition, synthetic speech, facial tracking, and 3D avatar animation — which Nvidia says can be used to power a range of virtual agents.

Large language models work in a similar way: processing the archaeological strata of digital text into synthetic speech to fill our low-attention voids.