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Lawmaker Jennifer Wexton - diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, which makes it difficult for her to speak - uses AI voice clone to address Congress (www.bbc.com)

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Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton used a artificial intelligence (AI) programme to address the House on Thursday. A year ago, the lawmaker was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, which makes it difficult for her to speak.

The AI programme allowed Wexton to make a clone of her speaking voice using old recordings of appearances and speeches she made in Congress. Wexton appears to be the first person to speak on the House floor with a voice recreated by AI.

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[–] Visikde@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least Wexton supplied some of the data to make it all work
I wonder where the data to develop the program came from?
Can AI be developed ethically? or do the datasets have to be so large the job requires pilfered data?

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

TTS voice models have been around while now and don't require much more than a 5 second sample of the voice data. TTS Tortise, among many, many others, for example.