Google Cloud / DeepMind · 2016– · WaveNet vocoder

Google WaveNet

The production descendant of DeepMind’s 2016 WaveNet paper: a neural vocoder that modelled raw audio sample-by-sample and made parametric TTS sound suddenly human. This is Google Cloud’s WaveNet voice, not the original 2016 DeepMind blog clip.

Known for

The moment neural vocoders entered production.

Vendor / paper demo

en-US-Wavenet-F · Google Cloud TTS docs, en-US-Wavenet-F.

Google Cloud documentation sample for en-US-Wavenet-F. Same published demo sentence as Standard and Neural2.

Approach
AR seq2seq
Year / era
2016
License class
commercial
Cloning
No
Streaming
No
Emotion controls
No
Languages (tags)
en · multilingual
Official
Source
Kokoro 82M · af_heart