The Rise of Convincing and Affordable AI Voice-Cloning Tools.

The author used AI software to clone his voice and asked family and friends to identify the real and generated paragraphs. The cloned voice was remarkably good, and creating it was surprisingly cheap and easy. Realistic text-to-speech systems like Play.ht are hard to build because human beings pronounce the same word differently depending on the context. The challenge of text-to-speech voice cloning is that it could be misused by criminals and other troublemakers. The most important countermeasure against the misuse of voice cloning may be to make sure the public understands that high-quality voice cloning software exists.