The third context of the Context-based Audio Enhancement (MPAI-CAE) standard is restoration of damaged speech. Unlike Audio Recording Preservation where audio has clear provenance – the magnetic tape of an open reel whose analogue audio has been digitised – Speech Restoration System does not make a reference to anything analogue. It assumes that there is a file containing digital speech. For whatever reason, it may be so that portions of the file are damaged – maybe the physical medium from…

Established on 30 September 2020, MPAI spent the first 3 months giving itself a structure ensuring the execution of its mission "develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data coding standards". Its first full year of operation – 2021 – has been engaging but rewarding: 5 Technical Specifications (TS)  have been approved and released in the following domains: Finance. Human-machine communication. Audio enhancement. AI Framework Ecosystem Governance. The Company Performance Assessment TS was complemented by 3 additional specifications: Reference Software (RS). a conforming…

One year ago today, MPAI could take stock of 3 months of work: an established organisation with the mission of developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data coding standards, a first identification of a program of work, progression of several work items and a published Call for Technologies for one of them. What can MPAI say today? That it has lived a very intense year and that it can declare itself satisfied of what it has achieved. The first is that it…

In research, a technology that had attracted the interest of researchers decades ago and stayed at that level for a long time, may suddenly come into focus. This is the case of the collection of different technologies called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although this moniker might suggest that machines are able to replicate the main human trait, in practice such techniques boil down to algorithmically sophisticated pattern matching enabled by training on large collections of input data.  Embedded today in a…

Geneva, Switzerland – 22 December 2021. Today the Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded the year 2022, its first full year of operation approving its fifth standard for publication. The standards developed and published by MPAI so far are: Context-based Audio Enhancement (MPAI-CAE) – approved today – supports 4 identified use cases: adding a desired emotion to an emotion-less speech segment, preserving old audio tapes, restoring audio segments and improving the audio…