AI Engineer Gemini Event

Presentation Link#

The seventieth MeetUp of the Machine Learning Singapore Group, was titled : “AI Engineer Gemini Event” - and held at an earlier date in the month than usual because of the imminent arrival of AI Engineer in Singapore. Since Google was a sponsor for AI Engineer, MLSG offered to host the event with a focus on Gemini (and, as it turned out, Robotics too!).

My Presentation#

My talk was titled “Something cool with TTS”. It had the following outline :

• Gemini-TTS
  • Announcement
  • AI Studio playtime
  • Coding in Colab
  • Resources
• How are TTS models trained?
  • Example Open Source model
  • Voice Cloning Colab
• Wrap-up & QR-code

Slides#

The slides for my talk, which contain links to all of the reference materials and sources, are here :

If there are any questions about the presentation please ask below, or contact me using the details given on the slides themselves.

Other Presentations#

The MeetUp also featured:

• “Prototyping fast in Antigravity” - Ivan Leo

  • Ivan is from the Google DeepMind DevRel team, and was eager to tell us about Anti-Gravity.
  • Ivan has not experience quota issues, which is encouraging

• “Robotics Planning with Gemini” - Chaitanya Jadhav & Anurag Roy

  • Anurag and Chaitanya demonstrated how Gemini’s multimodal and reasoning capabilities can power a pipeline that converts photos of an indoor space into a map and then generates executable task plans for robots with different embodiments.

• “From Lab to Laundry: Scaling Robot Autonomy in the Real World” - Daniel Ng & Siddharth Krishnan

  • Daniel and Siddharth explained how teleoperation is likely to form a significant role in the practical build-up of robot systems
  • They even brought along robotic arms (and controllers) for the attendees to play with!

Acknowledgements#

Many thanks to the Google team, who allowed us to use Google’s Developer Space, and generously provided food for our audience.