OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns Brenda Kanana / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI Unveils Voice Cloning Technology Amid Safety Concerns Martin Hodás / Neowin : OpenAI can clone your voice with little to no input, and it wants to talk about it with you Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : New ‘Voice Engine’ from OpenAI Needs Only 15 Seconds to Clone Speech Emilia David / The Verge : OpenAI's voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work TechRadar : OpenAI's new voice synthesizer can copy your voice from just 15 seconds of audio Anna Iovine / Mashable : OpenAI previews synthetic voice creator, Voice Engine Jalpa Bhavsar / The Crypto Times : OpenAI Preview New Voice Mimicry and Text Reading Tool Abdullah / Gizchina : Experience the Next Level of Text-to-Speech with OpenAI's Voice Engine NBC News : OpenAI unveils its Voice Engine tool that can replicate people's voices Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : A 15-second voice sample is all OpenAI's Voice Engine needs to clone your voice Tech Xplore : OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool Pranav Dixit / Business Today : How OpenAI aims to fight deepfakes with ‘Voice Engine’ in election year Interesting Engineering : OpenAI's new ‘Voice Engine’ clones your voice in only 15 seconds Grace Eliza Goodwin / Business Insider : OpenAI knows you're worried about its new AI model that can copy your voice International Business Times : This is how OpenAI aims to fight deepfakes with ‘Voice Engine’ in election year The Economic Times : OpenAI unveils voice cloning tool Voice Engine: All you need to know CryptoGlobe : ChatGPT Creator OpenAI's Voice Cloning Technology Is So Good That Even They Find It Too Scary for Public Release Jacob Knutson / Axios : OpenAI reveals artificial intelligence tool to recreate human voices Lawrence Bonk / Engadget : OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide : OpenAI's new AI tool could have scary long-term implications — here's why Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost : The Dawn of Indistinguishable Voices: Inside OpenAI's Voice Engine Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : OpenAI Previews New Audio Tool That Can Read Text, Mimic Voices GovTech : How many seconds does OpenAI need to clone your voice? Michael Kan / PCMag : OpenAI Debuts Voice-Cloning Tech, But Won't Release It Widely Matt Novak / Gizmodo : OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI's Voice Engine Can Recreate Human Voices with Emotions Chris McKay / Maginative : OpenAI Previews Voice Engine, And Shares Perspective on Synthetic Voice Technology Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : OpenAI unveils voice cloning AI model, but only for selected partners (for now) Threads: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : People have zero idea the scale of fraud already happening, let alone what's ahead. I hear _constant_ stories, and it's getting so much easier. Talk to family member and friends about it, all ages. https://openai.com/... Mastodon: Dave Mark / @davemark@mastodon.social : 😮🙀 — OpenAI can now take a small sample of your voice and: — generate it saying anything it wants in English — do the same thing in a number of other languages — start with the sample in other languages and do the same — This is both marvelous and terrifying. … @noellemitchell@mstdn.social : “Surprisingly, Voice Engine isn't trained or fine-tuned on user data. That's owing in part to the ephemeral way in which the model — a combination of a diffusion process and transformer — generates speech. — “We take a small audio sample and text and generate realistic speech that matches the original speaker,” said Harris. … Pratik Patel / @ppatel@mstdn.social : OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGe. In other words, it's not available to the public just yet. — https://techcrunch.com/... #audio #AI #voice #TTS X: Jeff Harris / @jeffintime : we're previewing Voice Engine, a model that uses a single 15s audio sample to create emotive and realistic voices. 🔊 check out how our early partners are using it! https://openai.com/... [video] Lewis / @ctjlewis : OpenAI strategy of “defensive release” seems more and more viable. they're sitting on stuff. Siqi Chen / @blader : yesterday a senior engineering leader inside openai told me that gpt5 has achieved such an unexpected step function gain in reasoning capability that they now believe it will be independently capable of figuring out how to make chatgpt no longer log you out every other day @apples_jimmy : “ We first developed Voice Engine in late 2022 ” Says it all folks. Jessica / @jessicashieh : sprinting with @jeffintime and the brilliant team, i've been reminded that so much of a person's identity can be tied with their ability to communicate. this has the potential to create meaningful quality-of-life changes for many: from being able to restore a patience's voice... Rohaid Ali / @rohaidalimd : With @OpenAI's Voice Engine, our team was able to help a young patient recover her voice. [image] Noam Brown / @polynoamial : If you haven't disabled voice authentication for your bank account and had a conversation with your family about AI voice impersonation yet, now would be a good time. Anna Kramer / @anna_c_kramer : this raises a big question for authors + publishing: Would publishers want authors to record their audiobooks if you could get the author's AI-simulated voice to do it? Would you, as an author, want to spend hours recording an audiobook when AI could provide a decent simulation? Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : NEW: OpenAI is previewing early results from a text-to-speech model that can mimic a specific human voice. I tried it: it's incredibly, scarily good. The company was planning a broader pilot, but decided against it due to safety concerns. More here: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Pietro Schirano / @skirano : “We first developed the Voice Engine in late 2022.” These guys are on another level lol Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage : OpenAI has had wild speech tech for a while now. We're still unsure whether/how we want to make them widely available ourselves (which ofc raises a bunch of issues), but it's just a matter of time before someone does, and more should be done to prepare: https://x.com/... Mira Murati / @miramurati : Our early findings from an initial evaluation of Voice Engine, a model that generates speech closely resembling the source speaker's voice from text input and a 15-second audio sample. https://openai.com/... Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : This is wild. And kudos to OpenAI for being thoughtful about releasing this, rather than taking the Meta/Stability approach of abnegating responsibility for the consequences of their products [image] Greg Brockman / @gdb : Initial learnings from our pilot of Voice Engine for speech generation: @emostaque : Voice AI is by far the most dangerous modality. Superhuman, persuasive voice is something we have minimal defences to. Figuring out what to do about this should be one of our top priorities. (We had sota models but didn't release for this reason eg https://www.text-description-to- speech.com/) LinkedIn: Craig McCosker : OpenAI have shared details on their work around synthetic voice with their Voice Engine project. Notably they call out that societies need … Rajesh Kandaswamy : OpenAI's new offering allows you to recreate someone's voice using a small recording, even in other languages. This is quite powerful, and it will have a lot of positive uses. … Simon Smith : I fear OpenAI is becoming a kingmaker that can reinforce incumbent leadership. — Example: They have a powerful speech to text model: https … Clayton Sims : Incredibly proud to see Dimagi 's work included in #OpenAi 's blog. We are excited to have had the chance to work towards these new frontiers to equitable access for emerging technology. Denys Linkov : Looks like OpenAI has been sitting Voice cloning for ~18 months (Late 2022) — Late last year (late 2023) they started experimenting in a closed beta with partners on use cases. … Paul Roetzer : OpenAI has had a voice synthesis engine since late 2022 that it hasn't released due to concerns for misuse. — Other AI companies won't show this restraint. … Forums: Hacker News : Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices r/technews : OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can't use it... yet r/OpenAI : Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices