Clone your voice to make calls just like Google Duplex.

Justin Flitter
NewZealand.AI
Published in
2 min readJun 6, 2018

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Yes it’s entirely possible. You can duplicate what Google Duplex did at the Goggle IO event. Make a phone call with your own voice. Fool your friends and your mum.

Lyrebird uses Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to create a digital replica of your voice.

The application takes you through an exercise to record yourself saying 30 sentences (about one minute of voice recording).

Lyrebird recommends 3–5 minutes of recording to build and more accurate clone of your voice. I did about 60 questions or a couple of minutes worth.

Here’s the result. https://lyrebird.ai/g/uJwaUH6i

This application is both useful for people developing AI Systems and helpful to expose more people to the implications of Artificial Intelligence for good and bad.

Every voice has a digital signature. If you’re someone famous it’s going to become essential to create and protect your voice against unsolicited use.

Perhaps in the near future websites or publication platforms like Facebook or Youtube will alert people to videos utilising an unauthorised voice as a potential fake, or prevent people uploading that content.

At the moment servies like Lyrebird require people to read sets of senentces which makes it difficult to take another voice from an online video and clone it. But it wont take long for those services to be widely accessible too.

Check it out and clone your voice Lyrebird.io

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Justin Flitter
NewZealand.AI

CMO #SaaS | Marketing Strategy & Activation. Author of Unrivaled B2B Strategy Workbook | http://Unrivaled.co.nz