Baidu unveils voice cloning artificial intelligence that can swap genders and remove accents using just a few seconds of audio

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has truly come a long way. Nowadays, it’s used for more than just advanced computing machines and robots. For example, Chinese internet giant Baidu has applied AI to voice cloning technology that it’s currently developing, and the progress it has made so far is remarkable.

In just one year, the company has made a lot of improvements to its voice cloning AI technology, as it noted in a recent announcement. In particular, Baidu’s Deep Voice AI now has the ability to take no more than a few seconds of speech audio as a basis for its so-called voice clones. And not only that, the AI can also create entirely new voice clones from the sources by simply changing accents or even the genders of the speakers.

According to a report on the Deep Voice AI’s improvements, the AI can now accurately clone an individual voice faster than ever before. Interestingly, it still takes a fair amount of time for the AI to do anything more than that, but the waiting time isn’t that unreasonable, based on data and information from Baidu itself.