be a dangerous thing, but is not half as bad as a lot of ignorance! right, 0k. he doesn t want an automatic voice which talks for him. he wants an automatic voice which he can control. the whole idea of human sensitive ai is to work as a partnership, peter has got a great phrase he sort of describes it as a jazz combo . it is like the idea of two systems working together to produce something which is greater than the sum of their parts. and create they have. they have taught peter 2.0 how to sing. # come with me. # and you ll be. # in a world of pure imagination! this is brilliant! # take a look. how did you manage that, then? are you willie wonka?
again, it is about communication, notjust about the words you say. they have taken things even further by combining his synthetic voice with a virtual avatar, which is a work in progress. it s pretty amazing what technology can do these days. so, where does the ai start, and peter stop? there is a path of least resistance. if the ai says stuff in a certain way it is easy to say let s just do that, then, but then how do you get the balance right? the real key is for the al to be personalised to peter, rather thanjust being a default system. you are watching click at hay festival. that was nick, so what can peter 2.0 do? that is what stephen fry asked at this year s hay festival, and this was the answer. speaks french.
but first, nick kwek has been looking at how peter 2.0 has been realised. today, i m in the scottish capital of edinburgh a city with a rich history of storytelling, where novel ideas come to life and the art of discourse has been mastered. i m here to meet the engineers putting personality into synthetic voice. voice is part of what we are, it s part of our souls, it s the way we communicate, it betrays where we are from, our emotions, our motives, everything. doctor matthew aylett and his team have been banking peter s voice so that peter can continue to talk now it is gone. he had to have his vocal track removed, so before that happened, we recorded him extensively and then we were able to recreate his voice in a speech synthesis system so he can now type in text and it will speak exactly the way that he spoke. text to speech technology has been around for a while.
translation: and if one day i start sounding like a classicl american newscaster it is because i can, and it seemed like an interesting idea to try. and it is still the real me. ok, here are some highlights from peter s session at the festival. stephen, it is absolutely wonderful to be talking with you. thanks so much for inviting me. it is going to be fun. i think it is, it s going to be fun and fascinating. - first things first, you have described yourself as a transitioning cyborg. how do you define a cyborg? cyborg is a fancy word for part human, part machine. in my case, what has never been done before is that the most important machine parts of me will be ai, not mechanics, and that all potentially gets a bit weird. not least because i am planning to use more and more ai, to look at everything from speaking to controlling things to moving about.
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