AI-generated
https://cdn.masto.host/mastjohn1126com/media_attachments/files/116/710/166/263/247/519/original/219f4bf3550a4d1f.mp3

MIT purposefully degraded their reproduction of Obama's voice, years ago, but now with publicly available, free AI tools, his voice (or any other voice) can be cloned without distortion.

Video from 2021: MIT could already clone his voice then, but purposefully degraded it....
http://filsofia.com/share/20260607-MIT-speaking-image-of-Obama.mp4

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The free tool that was used to clone the voice: OmniVoice. Sometimes the voice would laugh if the text supplied was:

[laughter]

But other suggestions in brackets did not sound as desired, and were read literally as words.


Woman from 1962 TV commercial cloned to produce this audio in 2026!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastjohn1126com/media_attachments/files/116/710/483/777/377/243/original/81cdabae76161bfc.mp3

Experiment with emotion
http://filsofia.com/share/20260607-fake-voice-OmniVoice.mp3
Produced with this shell prompt:

omnivoice-infer --model k2-fsa/OmniVoice --text "[surprise-ah] [laughter] It sounds too real to be fake!  [sigh]  But this is not a living voice.  [sniff]" --language en --output fake.wav