What is Bark?
- Founder: Suno
- Launch: 2023
- Use Cases: Text-to-speech, audio effects, music generation, nonverbal sound production, multilingual voice applications
- Technology: Transformer-based generative audio model with pretrained checkpoints for research and commercial deployment
Bark is an AI-powered text-to-speech platform that is changing how people create realistic audio from text input. Bark is not your typical text-to-speech system; it can output lots of different types of soundscapes—common uses include speech output in multiple languages, music, ambient sound effects, or natural, non-verbal sounds like laughter or sighs. Bark is built using advanced transformer architectures and utilizes a pretrained model checkpoint to quickly generate high-quality audio that can be used for various applications across both research and commercial industry. Developers, content creators, and businesses can use Bark to easily incorporate natural-sounding audio into applications, presentations, games, and multimedia projects.
Bark relies on several pretrained and multilingual-specific checkpoints, which can output audio with complex cues; this paves the way for greater immersive experiences and new possibilities for voice assistants, audiobooks, and other types of creative sound design, all while streamlining the time and effort that would typically go into designing high-quality audio output. Bark is also going to be open-sourced to enable further experimentation and collaboration in an effort to make creating advanced audio output easier and accessible to a larger group of people.
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