As a startup which has been operational for five years, specializing in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), Vbee is a pioneer in providing services such as artificial voice (vbee.vn) However, the path to bringing AI to reality is still tough. First, businesses must be persuaded to apply new technological solutions to improve productivity and reduce costs. Vnee has many solutions such as KYC (Know Your Customer), artificial switchboard, artificial voice, artificial MC, OCR (optical character recognition), voice biometrics, chatbot, call bot and artificial virtual assistant, packaged and ready to be used. But businesses are hesitant to use them.

A British company has developed an artificial voice that can speak with'deep human emotion' -- and even cry -- with complete realism. The digital helpers that we are used to -- like Alexa and Google Assistant -- tend to speak in close-to monotones, without real inflection to convey emotion. While this may suffice for voice assistants, such flat computer-generated voices are unsuitable for applications like producing dialogue for video games or film. However, technology developed by the ten-person team at the London-based firm Sonantic allows the creation of authentic-sounding lines of speech in minutes. A British company has developed an artificial voice that can speak with'deep human emotion' -- and even cry -- with complete realism (stock image) 'We create hyper-realistic artificial voices.

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.

It takes just 3.7 seconds of audio to clone a voice. This impressive--and a bit alarming--feat was announced by Chinese tech giant Baidu. A year ago, the company's voice cloning tool called Deep Voice required 30 minutes of audio to do the same. This illustrates just how fast the technology to create artificial voices is accelerating. In just a short time, the capabilities of AI voice generation have expanded and become more realistic which makes it easier for the technology to be misused.

It takes just 3.7 seconds of audio to clone a voice. This impressive--and a bit alarming--feat was announced by Chinese tech giant Baidu. A year ago, the company's voice cloning tool called Deep Voice required 30 minutes of audio to do the same. This illustrates just how fast the technology to create artificial voices is accelerating. In just a short time, the capabilities of AI voice generation have expanded and become more realistic which makes it easier for the technology to be misused.

San Francisco (CNN Business)It could be any ad on YouTube: A blonde model playfully puts her hand in front of the camera lens, dons white sunglasses and flashes a grin. In the background, hip-hop music plays while an unmistakably female voice says, "Fashion changes, but style lasts forever." The ad -- part of a demo reel on YouTube created by a new startup called WellSaid Labs -- is short and slick. But something is a bit different. While the model you see is a human, the background voice you hear only sounds like one. The Seattle-based company is using voice actors and artificial intelligence to create synthetic voices that sound a heck of a lot like people.

Last month, Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg interviewed the founders of Lyrebird, a Montreal-based AI company. Lyrebird aims to "create the most realistic artificial voices in the world," according to its website. The company's software recorded Vance's voice and cloned it within minutes. The AI version was so realistic that Vance's mother didn't realize she was talking to a computer rather than her son when Vance phoned her. Lyrebird's technology has already been used to help people, including Pat Quinn, the founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge.

But what if you could call in sick without actually having to do the talking? Newshub's Ben O'Connor tried out one of the "most realistic artificial voices in the world" to see if it could trick his manager into believing an artificial voice was the real thing. Using Canadian firm Lyrebird's technology, Ben created a voice recording that actually managed to convince his boss it was him calling in sick over the phone. Sure, it sounds bit creepy, but at least it works, right? Lyrebird can create digital voices that sound like you with only one minute of recorded audio.

Calling in sick to work is awkward, but sometimes it's got to be done. But what if you could call in sick without actually having to do the talking? Newshub's Ben O'Connor tried out one of the "most realistic artificial voices in the world" to see if it could trick his manager into believing an artificial voice was the real thing. Using Canadian firm Lyrebird's technology, Ben created a voice recording that actually managed to convince his boss it was him calling in sick over the phone. Sure, it sounds bit creepy, but at least it works, right?