{"id":155264,"date":"2023-01-12T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/microsofts-new-ai-needs-just-3-seconds-of-audio-to-clone-a-voice"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:23:59","slug":"microsofts-new-ai-needs-just-3-seconds-of-audio-to-clone-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/microsofts-new-ai-needs-just-3-seconds-of-audio-to-clone-a-voice","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new AI needs just 3 seconds of audio to clone a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-new-ai-needs-just-3-seconds-of-audio-to-clone-a-voice3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s new voice-cloning AI can simulate a speaker\u2019s voice with remarkable accuracy \u2014 and all it needs to get started is a three-second sample of them talking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voice cloning 101:<\/strong> Voice cloning isn\u2019t new. Google the term, and you\u2019ll get a long list of links to websites and apps offering to train an AI to produce audio that sounds just like you. You can then use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/hard-tech\/digital-twin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clone<\/a> to hear yourself \u201cread\u201d any text you like.<\/p>\n<p>For a writer, this can be useful for creating an author-narrated audio version of their book without spending days in a recording studio. A voice actor, meanwhile, might clone their voice so that they can rent out the AI for projects they don\u2019t have time to tackle themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s new voice-cloning AI can simulate a speaker\u2019s voice with remarkable accuracy \u2014 and all it needs to get started is a three-second sample of them talking. Voice cloning 101: Voice cloning isn\u2019t new. Google the term, and you\u2019ll get a long list of links to websites and apps offering to train an AI to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155264","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\/155264","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}