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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is getting into the voice assistant business and showing off new technology that can clone a person\u2019s voice, but says it won\u2019t yet release it publicly due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n

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The artificial intelligence company unveiled its new Voice Engine technology Friday, just over a week after filing a trademark application for the name. The company claims that it can recreate a person\u2019s voice with just 15 seconds of recording of that person talking.<\/p>\n

OpenAI says it plans to preview it with early testers \u201cbut not widely release this technology at this time\u201d because of the dangers of misuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize that generating speech that resembles people\u2019s voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year,\u201d the San Francisco company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In New Hampshire<\/a>, authorities are investigating\u00a0robocalls sent to thousands of voters<\/a>\u00a0just before the presidential primary that featured an AI-generated voice mimicking President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

A number of startup companies already sell voice-cloning technology, some of which is accessible to the public or for select business customers\u00a0such as entertainment studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OpenAI says early Voice Engine testers have agreed to not impersonate a person without their consent and to disclose that the voices are AI-generated. The company, best known for its chatbot and the image-generator DALL-E, took a similar approach in announcing but not widely releasing its\u00a0video-generator Sora<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However a trademark application filed on March 19 shows that OpenAI likely aims to get into the business of speech recognition and digital voice assistant. Eventually, improving such technology could help OpenAI compete with the likes of other voice products such as Amazon\u2019s Alexa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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