Truecaller’s AI assistant can now clone your voice to reply calls

Truecaller, the favored dialer and spam-blocking app, has launched a big improve to its AI Assistant characteristic. The app now permits paid customers to create a digital clone of their voice to deal with incoming calls. This revolutionary but mildly discomforting improvement outcomes from Truecaller’s collaboration with Microsoft and makes use of the brand new Private Voice expertise from Azure AI Speech.

Truecaller’s AI Assistant, initially launched in September 2022, boasts an array of AI-driven capabilities, corresponding to computerized name answering, screening, message taking, and name recording. Moreover, it engages callers to find out the aim of their name,  filtering out spam with a claimed accuracy exceeding 90%. Beforehand, customers had the choice to select from seven pre-set digital voices for his or her assistant.

What’s new is that customers can now generate a personalised digital voice clone for a similar function. After giving their consent, customers must file a number of seconds of a script of their voice to create the digital copy. Nonetheless, to keep up transparency, Truecaller has restricted the flexibility to customise the preliminary greeting when utilizing the private voice possibility, making certain callers are conscious they’re interacting with a “digital” model of the consumer.

The rollout of the Private Voice characteristic is being staggered throughout totally different areas, commencing with the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Sweden, and Chile. It’s anticipated to turn out to be obtainable in different international locations quickly.

Whereas this development presents a novel degree of personalization, it additionally raises questions concerning the potential misuse of voice cloning expertise. There are already a myriad of AI voice-generating apps obtainable. Moreover, reviews of scammers in India utilizing AI to imitate the voices of acquaintances to trick individuals out of cash are getting more and more frequent.

As the road between real and artificial content material blurs, one can’t assist however surprise if all this AI progress is going on too quick, outpacing our skill to understand the potential penalties absolutely.