AI Clones & The Future of Voice AI — With Evan Ratliff

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Evan Ratliff is the host of Shell Game. Ratliff joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how he cloned his voice with AI and sent it to interviews, social calls, and therapy. In this conversation, we learn about why he conducted the experiment and what it portends for the future of voice AI. Tune in for a lively discussion with plenty of fun anecdotes from when Ratliff send his AI voice clone out into the wild. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's explore the future of Voice AI with the man who cloned his voice and sent it out into the wild.
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0:51.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech
0:57.0	world and beyond.
0:58.0	We're joined today by Evan Ratliff.
1:00.0	He's the host of the great podcast Shell Game, also a technology journalist and formerly
1:05.0	the CEO of the Adivist, and the podcast is so great, and I'm so excited to speak with him about
1:10.0	it. Evan, great to see you. You too. I'm very happy to be here. Your podcast is so great, and I'm so excited to speak with him about it. Evan, great to see you.
1:11.6	You too.
1:12.5	I'm very happy to be here.
1:14.0	Your podcast is kind of crazy.
1:15.9	A little bit.
1:16.6	You take your voice and you clone it and you send it out into the wild having it speak with family members, friends, therapists.
1:24.5	And I want to get to all that, but just to set the stakes, it does seem like voice
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