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Really this is natural text-to-speech.

16,000 analyses per second. So, given Moore's law, around the iphone 9?

90 minutes of computation for 1 second of audio on DeepMind's GPUs: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/773968758519902208

That's a lot of cranks of Moore's law. Better hope for considerable algorithmic improvements. (Raw is probably overkill anyway.)

54000 seconds! Let's say it halves every year. To get it to one second you need about 12 years. But if it drops by 1/3 every year, it would take 7.

Not stating anything especially mind-blowing. Just restating the shocking speed of exponential growth/shrinkage.

Assuming it's done on device; you could stream it today!

The impression I get from the article is that it takes a supercomputer to generate it right now. So lets say 5 years? till it becomes mainstream.