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New Apple study shows how grouping similar sounds can speed up AI speech generation

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Apple researchers created Principled Coarse-Graining, which groups similar speech tokens together so AI models accept acoustic alternatives instead of exact matches. This speeds up text-to-speech generation by 40% while maintaining quality.

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