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#fakevoices — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fakevoices, aggregated by home.social.

  1. New York Times Style Magazine: How Should a Woman Sound?. “If you’ve been on TikTok at all, you know this voice: It’s female and aggressively chipper. It veers from high-pitched to only slightly lower than high-pitched with intonations that defy logic and emphases placed where they ought not to be. It’s a voice destined to say things like, ‘Hey, can I play too?’ when there’s clearly […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/new-york-times-style-magazine-how-should-a-woman-sound/

  2. TechCrunch: A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool . “Late last March, OpenAI announced a ‘small-scale preview’ of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/10/techcrunch-a-year-later-openai-still-hasnt-released-its-voice-cloning-tool/

  3. Publishing Perspectives: AI-Voiced Audiobooks: New Guidance for Consumer Labeling. “Today (December 19), the United States-based Audio Publishers Association and the United Kingdom’s Audio Publishers Group—part of the UK’s Publishers Association (PA)— have together issued a kind of holiday gift to the industry: a concise guide for publishers and retailers to consider on responsible […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/20/ai-voiced-audiobooks-new-guidance-for-consumer-labeling-publishing-perspectives/