The most important thing about a documentary deepfaking Anthony Bourdain’s voice isn’t that it happened, but that it happened and almost nobody noticed.
Need a synthetic voice that can read text for the visually impaired? A human voice actor can’t preread every possible sentence in the world but an AI-built voice could cope. Have a video game that’s been in interminable production for years and want to avoid hauling in voice actors for rerecording every time there’s a script change? Tweak their dialogue in production.
A third company, Resemble AI, offers services like voice “cloning” and has short clips of synthetic speech from former President Barack Obama and actors Morgan Freeman and Jon Hamm . The company says a voice clone can start to be built if it has 50 sentences from a real speaker to synthesize. “Although the voice and likeness are Plaintiff, the TikTok user is able to determine what words are spoken in Plaintiff’s voice and some videos depicting Plaintiff’s voice have involved foul and offensive language,” Standing’s lawsuit says.Attorneys for TikTok parent company ByteDance Ltd. have signaled they will argue the lawsuit should be dismissed for a variety of technical reasons.