Artificial Intelligence and specially Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques are increasingly populating today's technological and social landscape. These advancements have overwhelmingly contributed to the development of Speech Synthesis, also known as, Text-To-Speech, where speech is artificially produced from text by means of computer technology.Despite existing such a variety of speech synthesis tools and systems, there is a fundamental common drawback: unnatural, robotic and impersonal synthesized voices. That's where Voice Cloning technology comes into play, which allows to generate an artificial synthetic speech that resembles a targeted human voice. This new practice offers many benefits in several fields, such as, healthcare, education, or advertising. However, there is a known fact that every coin has two sides. Likewise, with the development of voice cloning, the generation of fake video and voices, known as "deepfakes", has risen, causing a loss of trust and greater fear towards technology.
Developing viable and robust software is an inescapable artifact of graduate research. The challenges lie in the complexities of developing, deploying, and securing software to support the research objectives. Combined with the transitive nature of students, the management of the software development and launch process is an arduous task. A standardized framework for developing and launching complex software is required. Within a university, individual departments do not typically possess the expertise, resources, software and infrastructure to translate research results to a viable product or tool. Extending upon the research of Hilton et al., [5] we designed a software development pipeline in an integrated multidisciplinary research context. The integrated and collaborative software pipeline formulated from the onset of the project streamlines the development phase and provides an iterative feedback and testing environment. This approach is applied to the development of automated insulin delivery systems, with the synergistic efforts of interdisciplinary teams yielding a mobile application and server software solutions, and a framework for the iterative advancement of the software capabilities into the future.
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