Microsoft has revealed VALLE, an artificialintelligence that can replicate any voice using a three-second sample. It has huge potential -- and huge risks too.
Artificial intelligence is having a moment right now, and the wind continues to blow in its sails with the news that Microsoft is working on an AI that can imitate anyone’s voice after being fed a short three-second sample.
More impressive, VALL-E can reproduce the emotions, vocal tones, and acoustic environment found in each sample, something other voice AI programs have struggled with. That gives it a more realistic aura and brings its results closer to something that could pass as genuine human speech. On GitHub, Microsoft has created a small library of samples created using VALL-E. The results are mostly very impressive, with many samples that reproduce the lilt and accent of the speakers’ voices. Some of the examples are less convincing, indicating VALL-E is probably not a finished product, but overall the output is convincing.
To mitigate that threat, Microsoft says “it is possible to build a detection model to discriminate whether an audio clip was synthesized by VALL-E.” The company says it will also use its own AI principles when developing its work. Those principles cover areas such as fairness, safety, privacy, and accountability.
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