nick kwek has been finding out. 0ver take off yet? nick kwek has been finding out.ed it, well, almost. here it is, the pal v liberty, on the soil. shall we take it for a spin? —— on british soil. sadly, this precise model in the uk is unable to fly. it has had its parts decommissioned. but across the north sea i am assured it does this. like you find in most aircraft, you have the throttle here to control the throttle here to control the power to the engines, the joystick between my leg which controls directions so left or right or forward or back, controls directions so left or right orforward or back, and the pedals which are used for driving now control the rudder for a yacht. it can carry enough fuel to fly for up to three hours. of course on the aviation frontier, safety is a work in progress. 0ne german prototype went up in flames last year, around a month after anotherjet last year, around a month after another jet from last year, around a month after anotherjet from an israeli start—up caught fire during testing. meanwhile, boeing has pressed paws on its inn

but first, nick kwek has been looking at how peter 2.0 has been realised.ity with a rich history of storytelling, where novel ideas come to life and the art of discourse has been mastered. i'm here to meet the engineers putting personality into synthetic voice. voice is part of what we are, it's part of our souls, it's the way we communicate, it betrays where we are from, our emotions, our motives, everything. doctor matthew aylett and his team have been banking peter's voice so that peter can continue to talk now it is gone. he had to have his vocal track removed, so before that happened, we recorded him extensively and then we were able to recreate his voice in a speech synthesis system so he can now type in text and it will speak exactly the way that he spoke. text—to—speech technology has been around for a while. we all remember microsoft sam, right? his voice sounded a tad monotonous. peter provided far more than the average voice sample recording amount — 15 hours�* worth of material. in order to make a voice, you take that audio and you use neural ne

nick kwek�*s been finding out.like we saw earlier in paignton. there will be more cloud continuing today across the west of scotland, northern ireland, a few isolated lights showers, the vast majority drive. the breeze stronger, but compared to yesterday less of a breeze, and kabaddi what we have had over the last couple of days we all feel pretty warm out there in the sunshine. temperatures up to 24, 25 across parts of eastern scotland. cloud continues to feed in across parts of scotland and northern ireland, there will be rain later in orkney and shetland and also the hebrides. that most will stay dry, it could be a bit fresher than last night across parts of central and eastern areas of england, temperatures down to single figures, but humid airfighting back in the west. low pressure towards the south of iceland, that strengthening the westerly flow across the west atla ntic, westerly flow across the west atlantic, and certainly later in the hebrides most will be dry. sunshine through parts of the west of scotla