In one survey, AI voice services creator Podcastle found that two out of three people incorrectly guessed whether a voice was human or AI-generated. That means that AI voices are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from the voices of real people.
Speech synthesis isn't new; many AI technologies date back decades. We’ve had speech synthesis for centuries, as seen in Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd's speaking machine from 1791.
Stephen Hawking's text-to-speech voice was built using a 1986 desktop computer fastened to his wheelchair and he preferred it because he identified with it, stating, "I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better."
WOPR, the famous computer voice from the 1983 movie, was actually an actor's voice processed for a synthetic sound, illustrating the long-standing connection between AI and voice synthesis.
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