VALL-E - text to speech

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsofts-vall-e-can-imitate-any-voice-with-just-a-three-second-sample

Windows Central take: Impressive but scary

While VALL-E is undoubtedly impressive, it raises several ethical concerns. As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, the voices generated by VALL-E and similar technologies will become more convincing. That would open the door to realistic spam calls replicating the voices of real people that a potential victim knows.

Politicians and other public figures could also be impersonated. With the speed social media travels and the polarity of political discussions, it's unlikely that many would stop to ask if a scandalous recording were genuine, as long as it sounded at least somewhat authentic.

Security concerns also come to mind. My bank uses my voice as a password when I call. There are measures in place to detect voice recordings and I'd assume the technology could sense if a VALL-E voice was used. That beings said, it still makes me uneasy. There's a good chance that the arms race will escalate between AI-generated content and AI-detecting software.

While not a security concern, some have brought up the fact that voice actors may lose work to VALL-E and competing tech. While it's unfortunate to see people lose work, I don't see a way around this. If VALL-E reaches a point where it can replace voice actors for audio books or other content, companies are going to use it. That's just the reality of technology advancing. In fact, Apple recently announced a feature that uses AI to read audio books.

Like any technology, VALL-E will be used for good, evil, and everything in between. Microsoft has an ethics statement on the use of VALL-E, but the future of its usage is still murky. Microsoft President Brad Smith has discussed regulating AI in the past (via GeekWire). We'll have to see what measures Microsoft puts in place to regulate the use of VALL-E.

https://valle-demo.github.io/