Amazon has apparently announced that it can programAlexa to sound like someone you knew -- one articlewrote "can sound like your dead grandmother". And cando this based on not much training data.What are the technical, personal, or social ramificationsof having common devices that recreate the voices of thedead? Or the living?

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Amazon has apparently announced that it can program
Alexa to sound like someone you knew -- one article
wrote "can sound like your dead grandmother". And can
do this based on not much training data.
What are the technical, personal, or social ramifications
of having common devices that recreate the voices of the
dead? Or the living?

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Recreating someone's voice can be possible with Resemble AI support. The Resemble AI is basically an AI-based voice generator that can clone the real voice and generate the voices. But no system can generate the exact same voice.

If we want to generate the voice of a dead person also then at least we need to give some voice samples to the system. It will few steps such as -

Cloning of voice - Take the voice of the person and select the features from them
Based on the feature train the model
Testing with user
Real-time testing

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