In April, the release of "Heart On My Sleeve," a generative-AI track in the style of Drake and the Weeknd, sparked debate over the definition of artistic expression and offered a glimpse into consumers' appetite for music created using AI. Responding to the track, Universal Music Group, which works with Drake and the Weeknd, asked "which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation."

Joe Rogan did a unique and impressive interview with Steve Jobs on podcast.ai, The founder of Apple passed away in 2011, but that didn't stop Joe Rogan from bringing his voice back to life using Artificial Intelligence. "On this episode, I welcome a friend who is difficult to describe. I am fascinated by him, and I hope you will be too. He is weird and brilliant and something insufferable. But my guest today has made some of the best technological products of our age, and he is always pushing the envelope in innovation," Joe Rogan said in his introduction during the podcast.

The voice engine derives meaning from the written words and can use these cues to "illustrate intense anger and emotional pain," according to a statement. In April, Sonantic showed how the audio service can convey couples in the throes of a heated argument. In that demo, two voices have an ordinary conversation that quickly escalates into a shouting match. In real life, the scenario would preserve "actors' vocal cords" and allow "them to earn passive income," the company said in a release.

"My voice as I knew it was taken away from me. People around me struggle to understand when I'm talking. But despite all that I still feel I'm the exact same person," Kilmer said in the video using the AI voice. A soul that dreams ideas and stories confidently, but now I can express myself again, bring these ideas to you, and show you this part of myself once more. A part that was never truly gone.

Writer and critic Jason Sheehan, who reviewed Roadrunner for NPR before its use of AI became public, says he isn't entirely sure how to feel. "I mean, is it all that different than Ken Burns having Sam Waterston read Abraham Lincoln's letters in his Civil War documentary? Neville claims that he used Bourdain's own words -- things that he'd written or said that just didn't exist on tape -- and that matters," Sheehan says. "If Burns had asked Waterston to make Lincoln say how much he loved the new Subaru Outback, then sure. This is the (admittedly queasy) choice to bring back to life the voice of a dead guy, and make that voice speak words that already existed in another form. Is it creepy, knowing about it now? But these things are decided in public. It'll get hashed out on social media and in spaces like this. And then we'll move on, all of us having been forced to briefly consider the possibility of an endless zombie future where nothing we've ever said or written ever really goes away."

The voice engine derives meaning from the written words and can use these cues to "illustrate intense anger and emotional pain" according to a statement. In April, Sonantic showed how the audio service can convey couples in the throes of a heated argument. In that demo, two voices have an ordinary conversation which quickly escalates into a shouting match. In real life, the scenario would preserve "actors' vocal cords" and allow "them to earn passive income," the company said in a release.

Three research teams surgically placed electrodes onto a human brain recently, so AI could turn patients brain signals into computer-generated speech. Scientists constructed words and sentences from brain signals by using artificial intelligence. Some of those sentences were gibberish, but encouragingly some made sense. This has never been achieved before. Dr. Stephen Hawking was unable to speak.

PRAGUE - Vlastimil Gular's life took an unwelcome turn a year ago: minor surgery on his vocal cords revealed throat cancer, which led to the loss of his larynx -- and with it, his voice. But the 51-year-old father of four is still chatting away using his own voice rather than the tinny timbre of a robot, thanks to an innovative app developed by two Czech universities. "I find this very useful," Gular said, using the app to type in what he wanted to say, in his own voice, via a mobile phone. "I'm not very good at using the voice prosthesis," he added, pointing at the hole the size of a large coin in his throat. A small silicon device implanted in the throat allows people to speak by pressing the hole with their fingers, to regulate airflow through the prosthesis, and so create sound.

A US radio journalist who lost his voice two years ago will soon return to the air, thanks to artificial intelligence. Jamie Dupree, 54, a political radio journalist with Cox Media Group, is unable to talk due to a rare neurological condition. A new voice was created for him by Scottish technology company CereProc. CereProc trained a neural network to predict how Mr Dupree would talk, using samples from his old voice recordings. "This has saved my job and saved my family from a terrible financial unknown," Mr Dupree told the BBC.