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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We hear from two voice over artists, based in New York City, who have filed a lawsuit against an AI company they claim stole their voices.
Also on Tech Life this week:
A device invented by Canadian university students is shaking up the milk business for small-scale dairy farmers in Africa. And an engineer tells us his robust plan to make tech easier to fix.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: An actress records her voice into a microphone. Credit: Andrey Popov/Getty Images)
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0:38.0 | Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the programme about technology and what it |
0:43.1 | means for your life. I'm Chris Valence and today we're going to hear from two voiceover actors |
0:48.3 | in the United States who started a lawsuit claiming their voices were cloned using artificial |
0:53.7 | intelligence. |
0:54.9 | That's coming up in a moment. |
0:56.6 | Also today, Canadian students invent a cheap, portable device |
1:00.2 | which is being used to pasteurise milk in East Africa. |
1:03.5 | And how to design products that can be easily fixed. |
1:06.8 | We get the view from the repair workshop. |
1:09.7 | R stands for rugged. |
1:11.6 | The product should be tough. |
1:13.3 | It shouldn't break easily. |
1:40.0 | Thank you. On TechLife, we've brought you lots of stories about the power of AI, how it's helping to discover new medicines and spot cancers. |
1:47.6 | But in the creative industries, many fear that AI generated images, music and text could drive artists out of work. |
1:53.6 | And voice-over artists, the people who narrate games, television and radio, are particularly worried. |
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