AI Voice

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has warned that the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence (AI) works generated from the voices of voice actors and actresses may violate the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Kyodo News reported. The agency cited the act of learning the voices of voice actors and actresses through AI and having them sing non-representational songs that are subsequently uploaded to video platforms as an example. The local government has previously stated that these actions may violate the law under certain conditions, and is now using specific cases to further alert the public to the risks of unauthorized use. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) today released a report on the "Law on the Prevention of Unfair Competition from the Perspective of...

May 7 news, according to foreign media The Verge reported today, the U.S. NBC television station's upcoming NBA game broadcasts will use Jim Fagan's AI-generated voice. nbc announced in Tuesday's announcement, when the network re-aired the NBA game in October, Fagan's AI voice will be present in a number of opening credits, program openings and promotional videos. Fagan was a veteran sports commentator who passed away in 2017 and whose voice appeared on NBC's NBA broadcasts. From 199...

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, AI sounds, AI images, and AI videos have all begun to emerge, and corresponding legal issues have arisen one after another. Zhao Ruigang, member of the party group and vice president of Beijing Internet Court, and Sun Mingxi, full-time member of the Trial Committee, were guests of CCTV1 "Today's Law", explaining the nation's first case of infringement of personality right of AI-generated voice and the case of AI accompaniment. The first case of AI-generated voice personality right infringement case in China "Before you see the person, you first hear the voice", this proverb shows that everyone's voice has a certain degree of recognizability. And with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, artificial intelligence can also edit and create the voice of a certain person...

Recently, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan launched a new feature that allows you to customize your own voice in just a few seconds. To experience this feature, just open the Wenxin Yiyan App, click the "+" below, and then choose to create an intelligent agent. In the voice options, you will find a function called "Create my voice". Read a paragraph according to the system prompts. It only takes about two seconds for the system to capture your voice characteristics and generate a unique "voice assistant" for you. After confirming the sound quality, your exclusive "voice library" is built in an instant. In the future, in every conversation with the intelligent agent, you can click...

On December 12, the Beijing Internet Court formed a five-member panel for the first time to publicly hear the country's first "AI voice infringement case" in accordance with the law. The plaintiff Yin Moumou is a dubbing professional and has recorded many audio works. Yin Moumou accidentally discovered that his voice was AI-ized and sold on an APP called "Magic Sound Workshop" under the name of "Magic Xiaoxuan". Therefore, Yin Moumou sued the five defendants, including Beijing Xiaowen Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., the operating entity of "Magic Sound Workshop", to the Beijing Internet Court on the grounds that the defendants' actions infringed his voice rights. The plaintiff believes that others have used the plaintiff's voice dubbing works on Douyin, live broadcasts...