A neural network that creates raw sound waves one tiny point at a time.
WaveNet is like a patient kid drawing a sound wave with a crayon. One tiny wiggle, then the next.
It helped computer voices sound less robot-like. You meet its ideas in TTS and voice generation.
TTS
WaveNet helped TTS voices move from okay to more natural.
Autoregressive Model
WaveNet uses this idea to make audio one point after another.
Audio Generation
WaveNet was an important early model for neural audio generation.
CNN
WaveNet uses CNN-style layers to see more sound context.