After ChatGPT and DALL·E, meet VALL-E - the text-to-speech AI that can mimic anyone's voice

Last year saw the emergence of artificial intelligence tools (AI) that can create images, artwork, or even video with a text prompt. There were also major steps forward in AI writing, with OpenAI's ChatGPT causing widespread excitement - and fear - about the future of writing. Now just a few days into 2023, another powerful use case for AI has stepped into the limelight - a text-to-voice tool that can impeccably mimic a person's voice. Developed by Microsoft, VALL-E can take a three-second recording of someone's voice, and replicate that voice turning written words into speech, with realistic intonation and emotion depending on the context of the text. Trained with 60,000 hours worth of English speech recordings, it can deliver a speech in "zero-shot situation," which means without any prior examples or training in a specific context or situation.