I struggle to find non-evil applications of voice-cloning. Maybe listening to your dead relative's voice one more time? But those use-cases seems so niche to the overwhelming use this will likely have: misinformation, scamming, putting voice actors out of work.
At my workplace, a colleague in another team used an AI tool to voice/video clone my companies CEO, CRO and CTO (I assume with their permission) and created a mandatory 30 minute training video that they expected us to watch with these monotone fake company leaders doing the presentation. It wasn't even a joke.
Last year I proudly said it was "two thousand and five" during a video take, and didn't notice it at the time. I was able to add the "twenty" using Descript.
If you're in the USA, your credit card company captures your biometric voiceprint without consent or even notification when you call customer service. This technology makes that pointless.
A good reason to let any caller ID one does not recognize go to voice mail. Phones need an app that does voice-to-text-to-voice to prevent capturing the voice. I want mine to sound like Smeagol (LoTR).
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 29.4 ms ] threadLast year I proudly said it was "two thousand and five" during a video take, and didn't notice it at the time. I was able to add the "twenty" using Descript.
1. don't (keep it silent);
2. recruit the original VA somehow;
3. recruit an alternative VA (who hopefully sounds close enough to the original to not be jarring);
4. splice voice lines together from existing voice lines; or
5. use text-to-speech.
Voice cloning is just Option 5 but with results much closer to Options 2 and 3.
If you're in the USA, your credit card company captures your biometric voiceprint without consent or even notification when you call customer service. This technology makes that pointless.
A good reason to let any caller ID one does not recognize go to voice mail. Phones need an app that does voice-to-text-to-voice to prevent capturing the voice. I want mine to sound like Smeagol (LoTR).