Make GLaDOS, SpongeBob and other friends say what you want with this AI text-to-speech tool
This AI website lets you make characters, including from games like Persona 4 and TF2, say whatever you want with scary accuracy.
The wonders of artificial intelligence never cease to amaze, especially when coming from the virtual mouth of SpongeBob SquarePants.
A website by the name of 15.ai lets you pick from a range of popular fictional characters, type some text in and get an eerily accurate voicing of your input.
15.ai is run by a sole person, who describes the deep-learning text-to-speech tool as an example of how it's possible to get highly accurate voice replication from very small data sets.
Originally beginning as a part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 15.ai has evolved into a project demonstrating that voices can be accurately cloned with just 15 seconds of data.
Freaky.
The whole thing even interprets tone and emotion using a technology known as "DeepMoji", a sentiment analysis model based on 1.2 billion tweets of data.
Among the characters currently included for your text-to-speech enjoyment are SpongeBob, Portal's GLaDOS, the cast of Team Fortress 2, Rise from Persona 4, and — of course — the My Little Ponies.
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AI is only getting more advanced in its capabilities, powering predictions for protein structures, making Photoshop easier, and occasionally mistaking a soccer linesman's bald head as a ball.
Impressive tech indeed.