Amazon could dream up a corporation like that.
The e-retailer is planning to allow its smart speaker to mimic the voices of dead people.
During its annual re:Mars conference this week, Amazon's senior vice president and head scientist for Amazon's voice assistant, Amazon, showed off a demo of a late grandmother's voice reading a book to a child, according to a report.
"This needed inventions where we had to learn to produce a high-quality voice with less than a minute of recording versus hours of recording in the studio," he said. We framed the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path.
Amazon says it is an impressive example of artificial intelligence. It was a big win to wake grandma up from her sleep.
The golden era of artificial intelligence is where our dreams and science fiction are becoming a reality.
We don't know much about the feature, as Amazon didn't give much information about its invention.
It's not the first device to mimic someone's voice. The Takara Tomy device is powered by artificial intelligence and can read stories to children.
Being able to mimic the voices of dead relatives isn't just weird, it could be used for more sinister purposes.
You will soon be able to read stories with your voice.
There is a reason that NASA is installing Amazon's voice activated assistant on its next moon mission.