Future Technology : Alexa will imitate your voice!
Amazon demonstrated a new feature that can mimic any voice with a one-minute recording. The company aims to help users keep in touch with their deceased loved ones.Artificial intelligence aims to mimic how the human brain works, or at least its logic, when it comes to making decisions. Jean-Claude Heudin, director of the research laboratory of the IIM (Internet and Multimedia Institute), explains the origin of this research.
This week is Amazon’s re:MARS event with a series of conferences dedicated to artificial intelligence, robotics and space. In Wednesday’s keynote, Amazon’s Senior Vice President Rohit Prasad outlined his vision for the future of voice assistant Alexa. One of the features Amazon is working on is the ability to imitate a person’s voice. This is one of the controversial applications of artificial intelligence due to the risk of being misused with deepfakes. However, this feature can also be beneficial, like the Sonantic AI that gave Val Kilmer his voice back for the movie Top Gun: Maverick.
To illustrate how it works, Amazon showed a clip of a little boy asking Alexa for his grandmother to read him a story. The voice assistant then modifies his voice to mimic his grandmother’s. A system that works with a recording of less than a minute
The idea would be to be able to prolong the relationship with a deceased person. The company’s AI is capable of reproducing a voice with a recording that takes less than a minute, while current techniques require several hours of recording in a studio. Amazon has not given a date for a possible launch of this feature, nor whether it will be available on all devices equipped with the voice assistant Alexa.
Rohit Prasad also underscored the complexity of Alexa, which integrates more than 30 decision-making systems based on machine learning. However, the company would not target strong AI, also known as generalized AI (AGI), a form of AI capable of rivaling human intelligence. Instead, Amazon prefers to speak of generalist or generalizable) artificial intelligence, capable of adapting to different environments and learning new tasks and concepts.
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