Do you understand Clonish?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0014/000639Keywords:
Clonish, centroid, cloned speech, vowel spaceAbstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) voice cloning programs produce speech clones that are advertised as being very close to or even identical to naturally spoken language. We hypothesize the clones have measurable differences compared to natural speech, and these differences would be useful in a forensic analysis. This exploratory study compares the differences in the F1-F2 vowel spaces of naturally spoken speech to those of cloned speech produced by an AI cloning program. This investigation uses an innovative analysis program written specifically for this research.
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