OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGen
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.
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- 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 @ppatel@mstdn.social · Pratik Patel
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Discussion
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@pkedrosky
Paul Kedrosky
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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/...
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@jeffintime
Jeff Harris
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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]
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@apples_jimmy
@apples_jimmy
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“ We first developed Voice Engine in late 2022 ” Says it all folks.
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@ctjlewis
Lewis
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OpenAI strategy of “defensive release” seems more and more viable. they're sitting on stuff.
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@jessicashieh
Jessica
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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...
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@rohaidalimd
Rohaid Ali
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With @OpenAI's Voice Engine, our team was able to help a young patient recover her voice. [image]
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@blader
Siqi Chen
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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
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@polynoamial
Noam Brown
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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.
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@anna_c_kramer
Anna Kramer
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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?
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@shiringhaffary
Shirin Ghaffary
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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/...
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@skirano
Pietro Schirano
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“We first developed the Voice Engine in late 2022.” These guys are on another level lol
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@miles_brundage
Miles Brundage
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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/...
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@miramurati
Mira Murati
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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/...
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@shakeelhashim
Shakeel
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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]
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@gdb
Greg Brockman
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Initial learnings from our pilot of Voice Engine for speech generation:
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@emostaque
@emostaque
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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…
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