Meta-formerly-Facebook has unveiled a "breakthrough" new text-to-speech AI that can edit existing audio, speak in six languages, and — in a more unsettling turn — replicate your loved ones' voices.
You know, just in case you want to hear from your aunt, but don't actually want to hang out on the phone for an hour.
"Today, we're announcing a breakthrough in generative AI for speech," Meta wrote in a press release, published late last week. "We've developed Voicebox, a state-of-the-art AI model that can perform speech generation tasks — like editing, sampling and stylizing — that it wasn't specifically trained to do through in-context learning."