London, July 16 -- A British firm has developed a new AI voice-cloning tool that is capable of reproducing a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals.
Traditionally much of the data used to train AI products with voices comes from North American or southern English-speaking sources, making many artificial voices sound similar.
To combat this, the company Synthesia spent a year compiling its own database of UK voices with regional accents, through recording people in studios and gathering online material.
It has used a product called Express-Voice, which can clone a real person's voice or generate a synthetic voice. These can be used in content creation such as training videos, sales support and presentat...