![]() ![]() ![]() Now, however, competent voices can be generated from just minutes of content. In the past, systems needed dozens or even hundreds of hours of audio. ![]() One of the biggest innovations in voice cloning has been the overall reduction in how much raw data is needed to create a voice. “Instead of a computer seeing a picture of a horse and saying ‘this is a horse,’ my model could now make a horse into a zebra,” said Aylett. “So, the explosion in speech synthesis now is thanks to the academic work from computer vision.” Ebert then asked the company to create a replacement voice, which they did by processing a large library of voice recordings. “Ebert saw that and thought, ‘well, if they could copy Bush’s voice, they should be able to copy mine,'” said Matthew Aylett, CereProc’s chief scientific officer. CereProc had published a web page that allowed people to type messages that would then be spoken in the voice of former President George Bush. In 2008, synthetic voice company, CereProc, gave late film critic, Roger Ebert, his voice back after cancer took it away. However, modern voice cloning promises something even better. Of course, voice replacement is nothing new in medicine-Stephen Hawking famously used a robotic synthesized voice after losing his own in 1985. Voice-cloning companies are also excited about medical applications. Here, a voice that sounds authentically human and responds personally and contextually without human input is what’s important. There are also more traditional uses in advertising, and tech and customer support. ![]()
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