Screen calling is something I miss a lot from Pixel.
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iOS 17 Will Let You Create a Voice Sounding Like You in Just 15 Minutes
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Absolutely. Imagine hackers using this stuff to impersonate you, calling your bank, family, friends.
I’m googling for screen calling but only get results for call screening… Damn, Google!
You're not ambitious enough. Go further back and you can sound like Steve Jobs.
So, if I replay The Empire Strikes Back, can I sound like Darth Vader?
iOS 17 Will Let Scammers Create a Voice Sounding Like You in Just 15 Minutes
This is a feature with narrow but deep impact on those who need it. If people could not be cynical for five minutes that'd be great.
Something doesn't sit right with me that this feature with such deep impact will require people to continue being an Apple customer to use it
I find your lack of faith disturbing.So, if I replay The Empire Strikes Back, can I sound like Darth Vader?
It will get to the point where you need secret codewords when you call anyone
The use case is for people who can currently talk but reasonably anticipate that they will soon lose their ability to speak. Apple is using the example of ALS, a degenerative neurological disease, but you can also easily imagine throat cancer doing the same.
We all know Stephen Hawking’s synthetic voice that sounds very characteristically robotic as other synthetic voice synthesizers of the time. Long before he lost his voice, he spoke just fine. And he had his diagnosis well before he lost his voice.
This technology allows those in a similar setting today to be able to continue to sound as they do today, rather than like Stephen Hawking’s identical twin.
Part of me wants to train the phone just in case I’m severely injured, such as in a car crash. But another part of me is also concerned that somebody could steal my phone and use it to scam my family.
Then again, we’re probably not far away from somebody being able to point a directional microphone at you while you’re at a restaurant to achieve the same thing.
Interesting times … interesting times ...
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Sheesh, I hate hearing my voice on recordings, and those are *actually* me!
Interesting tech for those that need it, however.
Interesting tech for those that need it, however.
I'm going to buy a bunch of movies with Morgan Freeman, teach my Mac the Morgan Freeman voice. I'd use that voice for every one of my text to speech devices.
iOS 17 Will Let You Create a Voice Sounding Like You
I can assure you that nobody wants that.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here in the comments. This is an accessibility feature. This isn’t for the masses to use. It’s for those that may be losing their ability to speak.
I lost a loved one in 2012 to a disease similar (but more aggressive) to ALS. It would have meant the world to “hear” them vs them having to point at a letter board to indicate what they wanted.
As someone who may experience this same disease (genetic and it’s a flip of a coin since a parent had it) - I really appreciate something like this after watching my aunt and father lose their voices and ability to speak.
If anything - this is when technology is at its absolute best. Not making TikTok videos, selfies, scrolling through FB or whatever - but actively improving the life of someone.
Yes, it’s very simple really. Just get access to the celebrity of your choice and have them read the text as prompted over 15 minutes. BAM done.
I suspect the process will involve the speaker reading out specific phrases to build the database, rather than just being able to play back voice clips.
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Imagine getting into Apple Park by calling security (by-passing them) in Tim Cook’s voice. OMG! 😳.
I should stop… 🫨😑
I should stop… 🫨😑
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I don’t know, seems creepy, Y’all.
I don’t know, seems creepy, Y’all.
I'm not sure how y'all are suggesting that scammers can make it sound like a family member? It's not like the scammer can sample enough audio sources of someone in your family speaking, painstakingly edit it all together to reflect the on-screen prompts so that the Machine Learning can generate a mimic, and then type out responses to the person they're scamming so that the phone reads it aloud. If you think that's possible, someone do a proof of concept, post your results here. I'll be waiting.
This is quite exciting for speech pathology services. The current technology for ALS and similar is called Voice Banking. It takes hours to do and costs a bomb. 15 minutes and free? Amazing.
An even bigger question... will we be able to use these learned voices for driving directions in Maps?
It could be extra awful to have had this (if you need it), then lose it. Which could happen just because Apple abandon it at some point.
But maybe you could get your phone to speak a load of words to train another device? Though I can imagine a reduction in authenticity at each such step.
And I certainly hope it is backed up to iCloud (or wherever).