Judy Garland passed away 55 years ago — however put any file, e-book, or file into a brand-new AI app, and her voice will be what you hear reading to you.
Text-to-speech AI start-up ElevenLabs revealed on Tuesday that its totallyfree Reader App utilizes AI cloning to reproduce the special voices of Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier.
The app, which came out last week on iOS (with preregistration open for Android), takes any PDF file, post or text and changes it into a voiceover that sounds like one of the renowned voices — total with feeling and contextual understanding.
“It’s amazing to see our mom’s voice readilyavailable to the numerous millions of individuals who love her,” Liza Minnelli, child of Judy Garland and agent of the Garland Estate, stated in the press release. Minnelli included, “Our household thinks that this will bring brand-new fans to Mama.”
ElevenLabs worked with the estates of the late stars to establish the innovation.
The start-up visualizes users listening to Sherlock Homes in Olivier’s voice or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Garland’s voice.
Judy Garland in the 1939 motionpicture The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming. Credit: Getty Images
Voice-cloning isn’t a brand-new application of AI, and some of its usage cases can be troublesome. For example, audio cloning hasactually been utilized to effort to rip-off individuals out of cash and individual details.
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ElevenLabs users can quickly produce audio deepfakes, or realistic-sounding impersonations of somebody’s voice. In January 2023, the start-up acknowledged that its innovation hadactually been utilized “for destructive functions” and chose to put voice-cloning behind a paywall.
ElevenLabs’ security page, as of this composing, discl