Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey and Kylie Jenner have all had their voices cloned by fraudsters. Online blaggers used artificial intelligence to fake the Tiggerish tones of Martin Lewis, the TV financial adviser. And this weekend David Attenborough described himself as “profoundly disturbed” to have discovered that his cloned voice had been used to deliver partisan US news bulletins. AI-generated David Attenborough voice used to report on Donald Trump – videoNow experts have warned that voice-cloning is outpacing the law as technologists hone previously clunky voice generators into models capable of emulating the subtlest pauses and breathing of human intonation. after newsletter promotionOpenAI voice assistant Sky sounds like Scarlett Johansson – videoThe rise of cloned voices raises the question of what they miss about real human tones.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2024 13:34 UTC