AI voices are taking over the internet

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In part one of The Vergecast's AI mini series, David Pierce dives into the boom of voice synthesis and artificially generated speech. The process is a lot more accessible for everyone, but how realistic can it sound? Further reading: AI voices are taking over the internet Everyone will be able to clone their voice in the future Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of neurological engines for overdubbing.
0:07.5	I'm David Pierce and hang on one second, actually, I just got to finish something.
0:12.5	Once upon a time, a white snake and a green snake living in a remote mountain became immortal
0:17.4	and obtained superpowers after centuries of practice.
0:20.8	Okay, sorry, I'm back.
0:23.0	And before you worry that I just like had a stroke or something live on the microphone,
0:27.1	I should tell you that I'm actually in the middle of training an AI to mimic the sound
0:31.4	of my voice.
0:32.6	This one is on the iPhone.
0:34.0	It's called personal voice and products like this are what we're going to talk about
0:38.1	today.
0:39.1	The idea of being able to create your own AI voice clone has been around for a while.
0:44.6	We actually talked a bunch about it on this show in 2021, I'll link to it in the show
0:48.3	notes.
0:49.3	A lot of it holds up really well.
0:50.3	But over the last couple of years, it's gotten both drastically easier to make a vocal
0:54.8	AI and the results have gotten drastically better.
0:58.4	You can even do it on your phone like I'm doing now with just a few minutes of really
1:03.0	awkward reading of sentences.
1:05.2	Here's what mine sounds like.
1:06.7	Hi, I'm David Pierce's AI iPhone voice.
1:09.0	I'm kind of like David, but kind of not.
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