Baidu's voice cloning AI adds gender swapping and accent removal

Chinese AI titan Baidu earlier this month announced its Deep Voice AI had learned some new tricks. Not only can it accurately clone an individual voice faster than ever, but now it knows how to make a British man sound like an American woman. You can insert your own joke here. The Baidu Deep Voice research team unveiled its novel AI capable of cloning a human voice with just 30 minutes of training material last year. And since then it's gotten much better at it: Deep Voice can do the same job with just a few seconds worth of audio now. Or it can change a human male voice into a female.