{"id":985110,"date":"2023-11-16T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-video&#038;p=985110"},"modified":"2023-11-16T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:32:20","slug":"creating-and-donating-thousands-of-ai-powered-audiobooks-to-project-gutenberg","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/creating-and-donating-thousands-of-ai-powered-audiobooks-to-project-gutenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating and Donating Thousands of AI powered Audiobooks to Project Gutenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Brendan Walsh and Mark Hamilton join Seth to showcase how their team worked with the largest free library of e-books, Project Gutenberg, to create thousands of high-quality free audiobooks using the SynapseML open-source library, Neural Text to Speech from the Cognitive Services, and Azure Synapse Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Project Gutenberg <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/audiobook\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/audiobook<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSynapseML <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/spark\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/spark<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nLarge-Scale Intelligent Microservices paper <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.08044\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.08044<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Brendan Walsh and Mark Hamilton join Seth to showcase how their team worked with the largest free library of e-books, Project Gutenberg, to create thousands of high-quality free audiobooks using the SynapseML open-source library, Neural Text to Speech from the Cognitive Services, and Azure Synapse Analytics. 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