This Artificially Intelligent Speech Generator Can Fake Anyone's Voice

The human voice, with all its subtlety and nuance, is proving to be an exceptionally difficult thing for computers to emulate. Using a powerful new algorithm, a Montreal-based AI startup has developed a voice generator that can mimic virtually any person's voice, and even add an emotional punch when necessary. The system isn't perfect, but it heralds a future when voices, like photos, can be easily faked. When Siri, Alexa, or our GPS talk to us, it's fairly obvious that we're being spoken to by a machine. That's because virtually every text-to-speech system on the market relies on a pre-recorded set of words, phrases, and utterances (recorded from voice actors), which are then strung together in Frankenstein-like fashion to produce complete words and sentences.