#voice-cloning

#voice-cloning

Think you can distinguish between a human voice and a robot? Think again, because the numbers are starting to say otherwise. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London found that people can no longer reliably distinguish between genuine speech and cloned AI voices. Their study, published in open-access journal PLOS One, found that when people were played recordings of real people together with AI-generated versions of the same voices, their judgments were little better than random chance.

As reported by Automaton West, Konami's deletion of two YouTube videos in which Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship duels are presented with AI-generated commentary follows the publisher's announcement of a trial run of the tech. The video announcing that trial included a promise to leverage training data based on "countless simulations" of games using over 12,000 cards' worth of data. Konami alleges that it understood the AI speech model it used-called "Anneli"-to be permitted for commercial use.

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The onset of motor neurone disease (MND) left Sarah without a voice and the use of her hands at the age of 34. It was within months of her becoming a mum for the second time. As they were growing up, her children Aviva and Eric only ever heard her speak through a machine with an emotionless robotic voice. But 25 years on, artificial intelligence (AI) has recreated their mum's real voice from just eight seconds of audio on a scratchy VHS tape.

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