ALS Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It

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18 points·el_benhameen··6 comments

The “Personal Voice” feature on iOS is a fantastic way to capture your own voice in case you are eventually in a position that you cannot speak naturally.

I set it up when it first came out. It’s imperfect, but very very good.

I've heard my voice in recordings, it's not beautiful. Our voice sounds way better inside our heads because of bone conduction. If these replica voices sound as good in a speaker as the one in my head, I'd suspect they've been beautified, and if so, I'd choose an actually beautiful voice instead.

Wonder if William Shatner would allow me the personal use of his voice.

I helped my Dad train an AI model of his voice using software licensed by the VA as his ALS progressed. Unfortunately, it progressed much more quickly towards the end and it went unused.

> “The key innovation was putting more arrays, with very precise targeting, into the speechiest parts of the brain we can find,”

I wonder how many other parts of the brain can be similarly translated?

Clickbait headline. Buzzfeed was the worst thing to happen to journalism. Now every publication that once cared to have some semblance of reputability feels the need to emulate its style, reducing every article to something that sounds like an ad or a movie trailer.

It’s not really clickbait, but I agree that the style is a bit jarring and overly ‘modern’.

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