{"id":176070,"date":"2023-11-15T13:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/microsoft-launches-a-deepfakes-creator"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:23:38","slug":"microsoft-launches-a-deepfakes-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/microsoft-launches-a-deepfakes-creator","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches a deepfakes creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-launches-a-deepfakes-creator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the more unexpected products to launch out of this year\u2019s Microsoft Ignite conference is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person didn\u2019t necessarily say.<\/p>\n<p>Called Azure AI Speech text to speech avatar, the new feature, available in public preview as of today, lets users generate videos of an avatar speaking by uploading images of a person they wish the avatar to resemble and writing a script. Microsoft\u2019s tool trains a model to drive the animation, while a separate text-to-speech model \u2014 either prebuilt or trained on the person\u2019s voice \u2014 \u201creads\u201d the script aloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith text to speech avatar, users can more efficiently create video \u2026 to build training videos, product introductions, customer testimonials [and so on] simply with text input,\u201d writes Microsoft in a blog post. \u201cYou can use the avatar to build conversational agents, virtual assistants, chatbots and more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more unexpected products to launch out of this year\u2019s Microsoft Ignite conference is a tool that can create a photorealistic avatar of a person and animate that avatar saying things that the person didn\u2019t necessarily say. Called Azure AI Speech text to speech avatar, the new feature, available in public preview as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176070","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=176070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}