Emmanuel Macron quoting Jean-Luc Mélenchon? Joe Biden insulting Barack Obama? Voice cloning has become, with the explosion of artificial intelligence, bewilderingly easy.
Within the framework of the Nuit de l’IA, broadcast by BFM Business and Tech&Co, we tested the ElevenLabs site, which precisely allows you to reproduce voices with sometimes impressive realism.
Specifically, the tool analyzes sound extracts from a voice to clone them. To do this, you have to make it “ingest” clean sounds, without parasites. So it works best with speeches, when the voice is very clear.
From there, ElevenLabs offers, therefore, a version close to the source, to which you can do anything and everything. Voice cloning is particularly effective on highly recognizable voices, provided the proper vocabulary is used. Donald Trump is thus a very good example.
But the ease offered by ElevenLabs has paved the way for the industrialization of deepfakes: in a few minutes, an Internet user can generate a completely false, but especially realistic message.
But there are also interesting possibilities with voice cloning, especially when IRCAM was able to reconstruct the voice of General de Gaulle to make him recite the Appeal of June 18, 1940, never recorded.
In the same way, the reproduction of the voice could make it possible to constitute a timeless source of a voice, of a singer for example, which would later survive his death.
Source: BFM TV
