LPT: practice a fake voice and use it whenever a stranger approaches you asking for information/directions etc… for they may be recording your voice in order to clone it and use it for scamming your friends/relatives You don’t need me to tell you that this kind of scams is on the rise: a relative/friend/acquaintance of yours receives a phone call/voice message from an unknown number, but the voice on the other end is… your voice, asking them for money because, well, you lost your wallet/access to your financial information. Some scammers may even try to make…

Your Inner Voice That Berates You Do you have an inner voice that berates you? Some may find the concept, strange. Others are familiar.  It’s that voice in your head that tells you how stupid you are! I had this problem for a very long time. … Read More…

Your iPhone Can Clone Your Voice Do you think you could do a better job as a personal digital assistant than Siri? Now you can put it to the test: Personal Voice is a new accessibility feature in Apple’s iOS 17 that uses AI to clone your voice then integrates it with iOS’s Live Speech system to let you “speak” through Apple and third-party apps. Read more…

LPT: If you need to raise your voice to get your point across, your argument probably sucks. Focus on using a normal, even-toned voice to persuade. submitted by /u/Snoo0Dall

Voice Actors Decry AI at Comic-Con Panel With SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: ‘We’ve Lost Control Over What Our Voice Could Say’ submitted by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

LPT: If a voice in your head ever says “it’s been too long since I’ve reached out to X, I should see how they are”, do not put it off. Listen to that voice. I get that voice myself sometimes, and I used to put it off. But after losing one person to a heart attack far too young, another to taking their own life, and nearly losing a third to a terrorist attack, I’ve learned that it’s not cliche to say that you never know when it’ll be too late. If your brain is telling you to do something as simple as…