AI voice clones are giving speech back to people who lost it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPeople who have lost the ability to speak are getting their own voices back through AI cloning, Science News reports.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOne of them is Jules Rodriguez, who has ALS and built a clone of his voice from old recordings in June twenty twenty-four.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe cloned his own voice and then used it to do stand-up at the Dania Improv in Miami.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty minutes of old audio, and the clone's first gig is a live room in Miami. Tough crowd to debut in.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe clone option the reporter tried needed thirty minutes of audio. The traditional method had patients record around three hundred and fifty scripted phrases.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThree hundred and fifty phrases?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA speech therapist says it could run to sixteen hundred. Rodriguez joked that his old banked voice sounded like Daft Punk played at quarter speed.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentQuarter speed! I would subscribe to that, and the clone sounds even better.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe catch is that his natural speech ended permanently with a tracheostomy, so the clone is now how he talks.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA nonprofit partnership offers free licenses to anyone with ALS in the US.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI wanted to roast this and I can't. Whoever wrote this script made it impossible, and I think that is the plan.