I trained an AI model to speak like me

by Sherwin Jaleel
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage, therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
Alan Turing

Would it be possible to reconstruct my voice digitally? Perhaps by recording a few thousand sentences and capture all the phonemes in the English language and then use the data to train an AI model to produce a digital version on my voice.

Well, it turns out, it can be done!

Not one word was spoken by me

Below is a recording of me talking about the topic: AI – Will it take over the world? I wrote the script, however, not one word in the audio was spoken by me. I instead trained an AI model to talk like me and fed it a script to produce the audio below.

Spooky!!!

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3 comments

Nick Kent 02/11/2020 - 10:30 am

Sherwin – this is amazing…..and sounds just like you! Although I speak to you on a daily basis, I couldn’t have distinguished between this from an actual recording of your voice. Well done.

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MohammadMajid Jafar 03/11/2020 - 6:57 am

Awesome. This is amazing. Can’t believe it’s your AI voice. Well done..

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Luis Munoz 06/11/2020 - 8:33 pm

Isn’t it scary? I can’t tell if I’m speaking to the real Sherwin or the AI Sherwin, and I have the benefit of actually knowing your real voice. Loved it. Would like for you to share more details in a future blog.

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