OpenAI Unveils Audio Tool That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
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The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.
OpenAI's new tool in pilot, Custom Voices, allows developers to create a clone of any voice with a 15-second sample.
Voice Engine can clone voices with 15 seconds of audio, but OpenAI is warning of potential harms.
The maker of ChatGPT said it would not release its new Voice Engine programme yet because of the dangers of misuse.