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		Ensorceled on April 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone The samples all sound a little like Rich Little and Stephen Hawking's love child doing impressions: they won't fool very many people. But, you can certainly see where this is going and that's the worrisome part.

dmix on April 24, 2017 [–]

I'm sure it will improve dramatically over the years. This seems to be a problem with all digital voice software, it's never entirely human sounding. Pretty good starting point though.

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