Software that can make you ‘speak’ other languages
A computer programme Deepfake can make news presenters appear to speak languages they can’t – and could make it much harder for us to spot fake news.
The BBC’s newsreader Matthew Amroliwala has family roots in India, but he can’t speak Hindi.
Nor can he speak Spanish or Mandarin, for that matter.
But with the aid of computer software – called Deepfake – the BBC presenter can be made to look like he’s able to speak all these languages and more. The technology raises an important question: could software like this make it harder to spot fake news?
Amroliwala read a script on camera in the Click studios, as did a number of native speakers of other languages. Then Deepfake went to work…
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