ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is stepping into the voice assistant enterprise and exhibiting off new expertise that may clone an individual’s voice, however says it gained’t but launch it publicly on account of security issues.
The factitious intelligence firm unveiled its new Voice Engine expertise Friday, simply over per week after submitting a trademark software for the title. The corporate claims that it could possibly recreate an individual’s voice with simply 15 seconds of recording of that particular person speaking.
OpenAI says it plans to preview it with early testers “however not broadly launch this expertise presently” due to the risks of misuse.
“We acknowledge that producing speech that resembles individuals’s voices has severe dangers, that are particularly prime of thoughts in an election 12 months,” the San Francisco firm mentioned in an announcement.
In New Hampshire, authorities are investigating robocalls despatched to 1000’s of voters simply earlier than the presidential main that featured an AI-generated voice mimicking President Joe Biden.
Numerous startup corporations already promote voice-cloning expertise, a few of which is accessible to the general public or for choose enterprise prospects corresponding to leisure studios.
OpenAI says early Voice Engine testers have agreed to not impersonate an individual with out their consent and to reveal that the voices are AI-generated. The corporate, greatest recognized for its chatbot and the image-generator DALL-E, took the same method in saying however not broadly releasing its video-generator Sora.
Nonetheless a trademark software filed on March 19 reveals that OpenAI probably goals to get into the enterprise of speech recognition and digital voice assistant. Finally, enhancing such expertise might assist OpenAI compete with the likes of different voice merchandise corresponding to Amazon’s Alexa.Subscribe to the Eye on AI e-newsletter to remain abreast of how AI is shaping the way forward for enterprise. Join free.