Samsung announced on Wednesday (22) a feature for the Bixby assistant that allows users to clone their own voice to answer calls. Whoever answers the call can type in responses and Bixby will read the message in his own voice. According to the company, Bixby Custom Voice Creator can be used when the user is unable to speak out loud.

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With the recent development of AI, it seems that the biggest companies in the smartphone segment are focusing on voice simulation solutions. Apple recently filed a patent that should work in a similar way. For now feature only available in South Korea on Galaxy S23 (S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra) devices. The Verge had the opportunity to test Bixby Custom Voice Creator and claims that the quality of service currently leaves much to be desired. According to The Verge, “Voice quality can be terrible and response times too slow to be useful.”

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At this point, it seems premature that a smartphone will be able to clone the user’s voice in high quality. But technology is advancing and this may become a reality in the future. In just a few minutes of audio, Bixby Custom Voice Creator can imitate your voice. and play any type of text. Despite the low quality (according to The Verge), the result is impressive.

Bixby Text Call, introduced in One UI 5, is a tool for answering audio calls using text. Custom Voice Creator is an evolution of this tool that offers to use the user’s own voice to answer calls. While Apple is working on something similar, with voice cloning for answering calls, Samsung is taking the first step, and soon voice assistants on mobile devices will be able to copy our speech.

For now, Bixby Custom Voice Creator is only available in South Korea and should be released in more regions when it offers enhanced features. Will technology advance until we can recognize whether we are talking to this friend of ours or to a robot impersonating him?

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Source: Edge

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