Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70600675 United States 06/22/2022 09:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "At its annual re:Mars conference today in Las Vegas, Amazon’s Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, Rohit Prasad, announced a spate of new and upcoming features for the company’s smart assistant. The most head turning of the bunch was a potential new feature that can synthesize short audio clips into longer speech. Quoting: - Not Neo - In the scenario presented at the event, the voice of a deceased loved one (a grandmother, in this case), is used to read a grandson a bedtime story. Prasad notes that, using the new technology, the company is able to accomplish some very impressive audio output using just one minute of speech. “This required inventions where we had to learn to produce a high-quality voice with less than a minute of recording versus hours of recording in the studio,” the executive notes. “The way we made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path. We are unquestionably living in the golden era of AI, where our dreams and science fictions are becoming a reality.” so a corpse will read stories to my kids? will they talk about what it's like being buried and eaten by worms to my kids? |
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User ID: 80829763 United States 06/22/2022 09:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's this little show called Black Mirror. Season 2, episode 1 addresses this idea of talking with your dead relatives via a computer simulation based on their social media and recorded calls. Then it goes a bit further. The name of the episode is "Be Right Back." |