Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Scares: VALL-E Can Emulate Any Sound

Microsoft recently released its artificial intelligence tool called VALL-E, which can imitate people’s voices. Artificial intelligence can mimic any sound, including emotions and tones.

Microsoft recently released an artificial intelligence tool known as VALL-E that can mimic people’s voices. Although the VALL-E is a very successful tool, it has already brought with it a number of concerns. Because the tool can imitate any sound after a very short sound sample.

VALL-E Makes the Unsaid Say

Microsoft recently released the VALL-E artificial intelligence tool that can mimic and reproduce human voices. The tool has been trained on 60,000 hours of English speech data and uses only 3-second fractions of certain sounds to generate content. Unlike many AI tools, VALL-E can replicate the speaker’s emotions and tone, even while creating a recording of words the original speaker never said.

A small article on Cornell University using VALL-E to synthesize several sounds is already available on GitHub, and while the results are a huge success, they are also alarming. On the other hand, when the sound samples are examined, it can be understood that some of them are a little more robotic, but some are almost perfect. However, it should not be forgotten that these samples were obtained from only a 3-second audio file. At the same time, the 60,000-hour dataset is still not a huge amount.

Currently, it’s not possible to use VALL-E, which might actually be a good thing because AI-generated copies of people’s voices could be dangerously used by internet trolls or others.

VALL-E Can Create Dangerous Situations

On the other hand, while VALL-E and similar systems continue to be more realistic and impressive, they also raise some ethical concerns. For example, a so-called sound recording revealed by using this system can have serious consequences. Politicians and other public figures can be impersonated for malicious purposes. Not only that, it also raises a host of security issues. For example banks with voice verification.

Artificial intelligence-based sound imitations can of course also be used for good things. Audiobooks read with the voice of a favorite artist are examples. Or you can have any song sung again by your favorite artist. Of course, this takes some time for now.

If you are curious you can visit the VALL-E site by CLICKING HERE.

Ece Nagihan

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