Can you tell a human from a bot? In one survey, AI voice services creator Podcastle found that two out of three people incorrectly guessed whether a voice was human or AI-generated. That means that AI voices are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from the voices of real people.

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For businesses who might want to rely on artificial voice generation, that's promising. For the rest of us, it's a bit terrifying.

Voice synthesis isn't new 

Many AI technologies date back decades. But in the case of voice, we've had speech synthesis for centuries. Yeah. This ain't new.

For example, I invite you to check outMechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschinefrom 1791. This paper documented how Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de P