Meta reveals new ‘Voicebox’ AI that is too risky to release

"...It is far more effective than its competitors, Meta claimed in its announcement. It can generate words with a 5.9 per cent error rate compared to 1.9 per cent from competitor Vall-E, for instance, and do so as much as 20 times more quickly.

Meta said that it had been built on the foundation of a new model it called “Flow Matching”. That allows the system to learn from speech that has not been carefully labelled, so that it can be trained on more and more diverse data..."

Didn't Adobe show off something similar, and even say something similar in 2016? I seem to recall there was an Obama demo or something and it made people nervous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco