Lyrebird beta – Create your voice avatar

It's important to make people realize that this technology is here. It's impossible to stop the technological advances but at least we can reduce their impact by making it well known.

In addition to what /u/sotelo said, these types of models also have potential to detect fake audio - if something sounds good to the ear but is highly unlikely according to the model, it may indicate something that needs further investigation/verification.

Also note that the user demo as it stands only lets you clone your own voice - so it's not like anyone can start synthesizing Presidents saying things just yet.

This type of thing has been possible on a very expensive one-off basis for anyone with a large enough corpus of the person to copy, deep enough pockets, and a computer for a long time. Hire an audio engineer and stitch together chunks of the voice to say whatever you want, with a bit of cleanup and selection of the text to say it can work quite well. This is the entire idea behind concatenative synthesis!

Here, the capability is out in the open - see also the ethics statement on their page [0].

[0] https://lyrebird.ai/blog/privacy