Please note that the event begins at 16:15 (not 14:15 like the other sessions)!

David Gauthier: Voice of Machine Theft

I will be reflecting on an experimental research project conducted with Dr. Anna Poletti where we engaged in the process of constructing a voice-based AI “from the ground up” with the intention of training it to speak in our own voices. The project has involved writing the machine learning code, selecting a corpora of sentences in English that capture the phonemes and cadences of the English language, and spending hours recording our own utterances to produce the sonic dataset the AI was trained on. The aim of my intervention for the forum is to share the process of writing and training our voice-based AI in order to occasion a conversation about how AI and machine learning—just like the performative arts—destabilise the association between voice, presence, authenticity, and identity.

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