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from the my-voice-is-no-longer-my-password dept.
Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment:
On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker's emotional tone.
Its creators speculate that VALL-E could be used for high-quality text-to-speech applications, speech editing where a recording of a person could be edited and changed from a text transcript (making them say something they originally didn't), and audio content creation when combined with other generative AI models like GPT-3.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Nuke on Monday January 16 2023, @09:53AM (1 child)
"Hi, this is your bank manager, we were speaking in branch last week. You need to transfer $10,000 to a special account we have set up ...."
or :
"Hi, your IT tech support here. We have detected a virus on your Windows. As you can tell by my Oxford accent, I am not from India ..."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 16 2023, @05:16PM
Hi,
This is the voice of a rich Nigerian prince who recently died. This voice is from beyond the grave. I spent my entire life trying to give away my substantial fortune by email, but nobody would return my emails!
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