AI Voice Cloning & Perceived Reality – Fake News Has A New Friend

A Canadian startup called Lyrebird has announced that it has developed a platform capable of mimicking human voice with a fraction of the audio samples required by other platforms such as Google DeepMind and Adobe Project VoCo. The Lyrebird synthesis software requires only 60 seconds of sample audio to produce it's synthetic sample. VoCo needs about 20 minutes to do the same. The quality of the voice reproductions that the software can make are mixed. Some are better than others.