5: The estimated value, in billions of dollars, of the text-to-speech (TTS) market by 2026
800: Roughly the number of audio files overhauled in the troubled game Cyberpunk 2077 by an 11GB user mod
13,000: Roughly the number of piece of (Western) classical music processed by an machine-learning AI at EPFL’s Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab to discern patterns in the music’s development
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¹Footnotes: TTS: [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/text-to-speech-market-worth-5-0-billion-by-2026–exclusive-report-by-marketsandmarkets-301216956.html). 2077: [dsogaming.com](https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/this-11gb-mod-for-cyberpunk-2077-overhauls-800-audio-files/). EPFL: [epfl.ch](https://actu.epfl.ch/news/machine-learning-helps-retrace-evolution-of-clas-2/).
*Originally published in the February 8, 2021, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter ([tinyletter.com/disquiet](https://tinyletter.com/disquiet)).*