{"id":121689,"date":"2021-04-17T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ai-driven-audio-cloning-startup-gives-voice-to-einstein-chatbot"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:23:18","slug":"ai-driven-audio-cloning-startup-gives-voice-to-einstein-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ai-driven-audio-cloning-startup-gives-voice-to-einstein-chatbot","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Umc9ezAyJv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein \u2014 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aflorithmic.ai\/post\/creating-einsteins-voice\">synthesized voice<\/a> that\u2019s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist\u2019s actual voice.<\/p>\n<p>The startup behind the \u201cuncanny valley\u201d audio deepfake of Einstein is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/04\/aflorithmic-nabs-1-3m-for-ai-driven-personalized-audio-as-a-service\/\">Aflorithmic<\/a> (whose seed round we covered back in February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein \u2014 with a synthesized voice that\u2019s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist\u2019s actual voice. The startup behind the \u201cuncanny valley\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}