An Australian radio station secretly employed an AI-generated host modeled after a real employee for months, sparking outrage over the lack of transparency and raising concerns about the need for honesty in disclosing AI use to audiences.
Dia, a groundbreaking 1.6B parameter AI model, generates lifelike dialogue and voice cloning from text-to-speech, enabling highly realistic audio with controlled emotion, tone, and nonverbal cues like laughter, while supporting voice cloning by conditioning on provided audio transcripts.
Imogen Heap pioneers new AI music tools on her platform Jen, enabling artists to generate novel songs by combining text prompts with her original 'stylefilters,' aiming to empower creators in the rapidly evolving generative audio landscape.
Generative AI transforms education with Andrew Ng's AI-assisted data analyst program, raises voice deception concerns due to human inability to detect AI voices, and fuels the quest for AGI as Google DeepMind's efforts were highlighted on 60 Minutes.
By 2025, voice AI agents will revolutionize customer service, replacing traditional IVR systems with human-like interactions, as 98% of organizations plan to implement these flexible, customizable, compliant, and accessible AI solutions within a year, driving widespread automation across industries.
Iconic musical sounds transcend generations through sampling, remixing, and interpolation, creating intricate new songs with complex musical histories spanning genres and cultures.
YouTube introduces a groundbreaking AI tool called 'Music assistant' that empowers creators to generate copyright-free instrumental background music for videos by simply entering text prompts describing their desired music style or mood, revolutionizing the content creation process.
Krisp, a company known for its noise-cancellation technology, has unveiled an AI tool that can convert a speaker's accent to American English in real-time, supporting over 17 Indian dialects initially and plans to add more accents like Filipino, offering a free 60-minute daily usage or a $15/month unlimited plan.
OpenAI unveiled powerful new AI models for speech transcription and text-to-speech generation, offering developers more accurate and customizable voice experiences, but with controlled access due to their large size and complexity, unlike previous open-source releases.
Amazon's integration of Suno's AI song generation into Alexa raises concerns as Suno faces a lawsuit alleging ingestion of copyrighted music, potentially enabling users to generate AI songs that could replace listening to original works and undermining Amazon's own deals with labels.