Artificial intelligence is advancing at unsuspected steps. The new technological gadget now allows you to write a text and have it reproduced with the voice of celebrities.
El Chavo del Ocho, Mariano Closs or Homero Simpson are some of the voices that can be used in Fake Youa free website that allows a feature to make your contacts laugh.
This website was assembled by a group of engineers from Atlanta, United States, and they are known in the jargon as “deepfake” (deep alterations).
The steps to be carried out are the following
1. Go to your cell phone or computer and visit www.fakeyou.com
This is the initial website of Fake You.
2. Within the website, go to the section that says Category/Language and choose the excerpt that the user wants.
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The user must choose the category and the person or character whose voice they want to reproduce.
3. Next, you must type the words you want to hear in a user’s voice.
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The text that the user wants to choose.
4. Finally, the system will process the request and offer to download the file, which will be saved in the memory of your cell phone or computer.
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The ultimate place to download.
5. To send it, you must select the file and then choose the group you want to send it to.
Below is an audio prepared by Cromo that emulates the voice of Mariano Closs:
The deepfake of the audios
Veritone, a company that had already worked on the development of something similar last year, said that these developments create a new way of working for many people. “With full control over their voice and its use, any influencer, personality or celebrity can literally be in multiple places at once,” the company said in a statement.
The developers of Fake You, who previously had a site called Vo.Codes, say that this development is a “demonstration of how far computers have caught up.
And they add that these deep fakes can feel like when Photoshop first came out. “They are impressive, maybe a little scary, but they are about to become the new norm,” they point out.
And they clarify that people will get used to the technology and the results will be used mainly for “creative good”. “We believe that the next Hollywood will be you,” they comment.
They have a Discord channel where they receive collaborations from people from all over the world who collaborate for the development of this system and where you can be aware of the new voices that are going to be added.
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