Name that voice: Mathematica catches impersonations
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 05:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Benedict Cumberbatch was recently invited to show off his voice impersonations of celebrities, from Christopher Walken to Taylor Swift. That video evidently inspired Wolfram's Rita Crook, marketing products manager, to ask that, if his impersonation skills of well-known talents such as Michael Caine could fool a listening human ear into thinking it was Michael, could the actor also fool a computer—-namely, could he fool Mathematica's machine-learning capabilities?
