![]() ![]() Voicebox - befitting its name - could provide far more naturalistic speech to people who are mute or otherwise unable to communicate, removing some of the barriers to interaction caused by the existing text-to-speech ‘robot voice’ made famous by physicist Stephen Hawking. ![]() Of course, while Meta is keen to stress that it recognizes the “potential for misuse and unintended harm” surrounding tools like Voicebox, it’s important not to lose sight of the potential benefits AI speech generation could have in the future. Meta describes the classifier as “highly effective” - though notably not perfectly effective. Meta clearly believes its new tool is good enough to fool at least the majority of people, though - since it’s explicitly not releasing Voicebox to the public, but instead publishing a research paper and detailing a classifier tool that can identify Voicebox-generated speech from real human speech. It mimics the mannerisms of each presidential gamer enough that they’re recognizable, but not so well that anyone with a brain would actually believe it’s them. It’s good for a laugh, but the audio is hardly convincing. Such tools exist already, of course, but they’re less convincing you may have seen amusing videos on social media featuring the likes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama supposedly playing Fortnite together. Big Zuck (sorry, 'Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg') has been investing heavily in AI development at Meta for years now.
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