{"id":17829,"date":"2024-11-19T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17829"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:13:09","slug":"microsoft-will-soon-let-you-clone-your-voice-for-teams-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17829","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages.<\/p>\n

At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the company revealed Interpreter in Teams, a tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers \u201creal-time, speech-to-speech\u201d interpretation capabilities. Starting in early 2025, people using Teams for meetings will be able to use Interpreter to simulate their voices in up to nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine being able to sound just like you in a different language,\u201d Microsoft CMO Jared Spataro wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. \u201cInterpreter in Teams provides real-time speech-to-speech translation during meetings, and you can opt to have it simulate your speaking voice for a more personal and engaging experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Microsoft gave few concrete details about the feature, which will only be available to Microsoft 365<\/a> subscribers. But it did say that the tool doesn\u2019t store any biometric data, doesn\u2019t add sentiments beyond what\u2019s \u201cnaturally present\u201d in a voice, and can be disabled through Teams settings.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterpreter is designed to replicate the speaker\u2019s message as faithfully as possible without adding assumptions or extraneous information,\u201d a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch. \u201cVoice simulation can only be enabled when users provide consent via a notification during the meeting or by enabling \u2018Voice simulation consent\u2019 in settings.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of firms have developed tech to digitally mimic voices that sound reasonably natural.\u00a0Meta recently said<\/a> that it\u2019s piloting a translation tool that can automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels, while ElevenLabs offers a robust platform for multilingual speech generation.<\/p>\n

AI translations tend to be\u00a0less lexically rich<\/a>\u00a0than those from human interpreters, and AI translators often struggle to accurately convey colloquialisms, analogies and cultural nuances. Yet, the cost savings are attractive enough to make the trade-off worth it for some. According to\u00a0Markets and Markets<\/a>, the sector for natural language processing technologies, including translation technologies, could be worth $35.1 billion by 2026.<\/p>\n

AI clones also pose security challenges, however.<\/p>\n

Deepfakes have\u00a0spread like wildfire<\/a>\u00a0across social media, making it harder to distinguish truth from disinformation. So far this year, deepfakes featuring\u00a0President Joe Biden<\/a>,\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/a>, and\u00a0Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0have racked up millions of views and reshares. Deepfakes have also been used to target individuals, for example by\u00a0impersonating loved ones<\/a>. Losses linked to impersonation scams topped $1 billion last year,\u00a0per<\/a> the FTC.<\/p>\n

Just this year, a team of cybercriminals reportedly<\/a> staged a Teams meeting with a company\u2019s C-level staff that was so convincing that the target company wired $25 million to the criminals. <\/p>\n

In part due to the risks (and optics), OpenAI earlier this year decided against releasing its voice cloning tech, Voice Engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From what\u2019s been revealed so far, Interpreter in Teams is a relatively narrow application of voice cloning. Still, that doesn\u2019t mean the tool will be safe from abuse. One can imagine a bad actor feeding Interpreter a misleading recording \u2014 for example, someone asking for bank account information \u2014 to get a translation in the language of their target.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we\u2019ll get a better idea of the safeguards Microsoft will add around Interpreter in the months to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> techcrunch.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages. At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the company revealed Interpreter in Teams, a tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers \u201creal-time, speech-to-speech\u201d interpretation capabilities. Starting in early 2025, people using Teams for meetings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}