A Reddit user created a fake, AI-generated voice of famed narrator David Attenborough that reads misguided relationship advice

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• A Reddit user created an AI-generated voice of David Attenborough, the famed English broadcaster and naturalist.
• A software developer then used the model to create a YouTube channel that auto-uploads subreddit posts into clips read by the fake voice.
• You can listen to Attenborough reading various posts on misguided relationship advice, as well as other topics, on the YouTube Channel ReddiTube.
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A Reddit user created a fake voice of iconic English broadcaster David Attenborough that is now being used to read posts published on the site's r/Relationships and r/AskReddit subreddits.

Per a report from Motherboard, a Reddit user named "youmebangbang" created the machine learning voice model likely by taking hours of voice recordings from Attenborough's myriad wildlife program narrations and then using the data to teach the model how to sound like him.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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