{"id":12275,"date":"2023-11-17T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/microsoft-releases-ai-tool-for-photorealistic-copying-of-faces-and-voices\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:37:58","slug":"microsoft-releases-ai-tool-for-photorealistic-copying-of-faces-and-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/microsoft-releases-ai-tool-for-photorealistic-copying-of-faces-and-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases AI tool for photorealistic copying of faces and voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a \u2018deepfakes creator\u2019, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced its latest contribution to the artificial intelligence race at its developer conference this week: software that can generate new avatars and voices or replicate the existing appearance and speech of a user \u2013 raising concerns that it could supercharge the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jan\/13\/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them\">deepfakes<\/a>, AI-made videos of events that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Azure AI Speech is trained with human images and allows users to input a script that can then be \u201cread\u201d aloud by a photorealistic avatar created with artificial intelligence. Users can either choose a preloaded Microsoft avatar or upload footage of a person whose voice and likeness they want to replicate. Microsoft said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/ai-azure-ai-services-blog\/azure-ai-speech-announces-public-preview-of-text-to-speech\/ba-p\/3981448\">blog post<\/a> published on Wednesday that the tool could be used to build \u201cconversational agents, virtual assistants, chatbots and more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/17\/microsoft-azure-ai-video-deepfakes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/35e3c2e6b39e49fa0c11a93b26a71fa212ff81e2\/0_396_6048_3627\/master\/6048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c775f106096758003040f7eea765b689\" title=\"Microsoft releases AI tool for photorealistic copying of faces and voices\" \/>In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a \u2018deepfakes creator\u2019, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards<br \/>\nMicrosoft announced its latest contribution to the artificial intelligence race at its developer conference this week: software that can generate new avatars and voices or replicate the existing appearance and speech of a user \u2013 raising concerns that it could supercharge the creation of deepfakes, AI-made videos of events that didn\u2019t happen.<br \/>\nAnnounced at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Azure AI Speech is trained with human images and allows users to input a script that can then be \u201cread\u201d aloud by a photorealistic avatar created with artificial intelligence. Users can either choose a preloaded Microsoft avatar or upload footage of a person whose voice and likeness they want to replicate. Microsoft said in a blog post published on Wednesday that the tool could be used to build \u201cconversational agents, virtual assistants, chatbots and more\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a \u2018deepfakes creator\u2019, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards Microsoft announced its latest contribution to the artificial intelligence race at its developer conference this week: software that can generate new avatars and voices or replicate the existing appearance and speech of a user \u2013 raising &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/microsoft-releases-ai-tool-for-photorealistic-copying-of-faces-and-voices\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft releases AI tool for photorealistic copying of faces and voices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}