ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is stepping into the voice assistant enterprise and exhibiting off new expertise that may clone an individual’s voice, however says it received’t but launch it publicly because of security issues.
The factitious intelligence firm unveiled its new Voice Engine expertise Friday, simply over per week after submitting a trademark software for the title. The corporate claims that it will possibly recreate an individual’s voice with simply 15 seconds of recording of that individual speaking.
OpenAI says it plans to preview it with early testers “but not widely release this technology at this time” due to the hazards of misuse.
“We recognize that generating speech that resembles people’s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year,” the San Francisco firm mentioned in a press release.
In New Hampshire, authorities are investigating robocalls despatched to hundreds of voters simply earlier than the presidential major that featured an AI-generated voice mimicking President Joe Biden.
Various startup corporations already promote voice-cloning expertise, a few of which is accessible to the general public or for choose enterprise prospects equivalent to leisure studios.
OpenAI says early Voice Engine testers have agreed to not impersonate an individual with out their consent and to reveal that the voices are AI-generated. The corporate, greatest recognized for its chatbot and the image-generator DALL-E, took an identical method in saying however not broadly releasing its video-generator Sora.
Nevertheless a trademark software filed on March 19 reveals that OpenAI seemingly goals to get into the enterprise of speech recognition and digital voice assistant. Ultimately, enhancing such expertise may assist OpenAI compete with the likes of different voice merchandise equivalent to Amazon’s Alexa.