The Digital Source For China's Tech Innovation Since 2000

China Tech Buzz

Global News Impacting Chinese Tech

'Harry Potter' narrator Stephen Fry says AI was used to steal his voice

Source: nypost.com nypost.com
News Snapshot:

Actor Stephen Fry, the British voice behind the “Harry Potter” audiobook series, revealed that artificial intelligence was used to mimic his distinct accent for a documentary that he knew nothing about. “I said not one word of that — it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” said Fry, who has narrated more than 100 hours of the beloved JK Rowling series. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration,” Fry played a snippet of the AI-generated audio…

Other China Tech Buzz: