Man vs Machine - Artificial Intelligence Produces Human Voice - Raises Several Questions

The long-drawn tussle between man and machine has made another breakthrough. Using snippets of voices, Chinese Technology Leader Baidu's'Deep Voice' can generate new speech, accents, and tones in only 3.7 seconds in comparison to the 30 minutes of audio the company's voice cloning tool required a year back. This demonstrates the accelerating advances, the technology to produce artificial voices, has made in such a short span of time. Also, it is indicative of the capabilities getting stronger and becoming more realistic with time, which may lead to abuse of the technology. As is true for all artificial intelligence algorithms, the more data is fed to the voice cloning tools such as Deep Voice to train with, the more realistic the results they produce.