Deepfake voice technology based on voice cloning, or quasi-perfect reproductions of a person’s voice, can be used both for the good and for the bad. It can be put in the service of voice synthesis that can give a voice back to people who would otherwise lose it due to acute or chronic conditions such as ALS, apraxia, traumatic brain injury, stroke, etc.It is already being used in the film and TV industry, gaming, call centers, and it is also potentially convenient for encryption and therapy. However, there is no denying that it can pose a significant threat to democratic processes, particularly to those related to the value of privacy. If used inappropriately, deep-fake voice technology can perpetuate deceit and harassment.Precisely because we are fully aware of this, we at Respeecher place a great deal of emphasis on the use of voice technology in ways that minimize the risk of fooling people into thinking someone said something they didn't.We are committed to ensuring that our groundbreaking technology is only used for ethical projects, and does not fall into the wrong hands. We do not use the voice of a private person or an actor without permission, and we always ask for voice owners’ written consent. However, we do allow non-deceptive use of the voices of historical figures and politicians, such as Richard Nixon or Barack Obama, but only for projects that meet ethical standards.What about use cases for businesses? Numbers show that there is a huge opportunity for economic organizations to leverage voice to acquire and retain new business. According to an AppDynamics report from 2018, half the web searches were forecasted to be voice-driven by 2020.61% of the surveyed IT decision-makers take this even further, expecting that voice commands would completely replace manually typed commands for finding information on the Internet. And the young generation leads the way - 84% of millennials already use voice assistants to help them keep track of their daily schedule and responsibilities.The Good.Giving the ability to speak naturally back to people who suffer from a wide range of medical conditionsThe ability to communicate, sharing thoughts and feelings by uttering words is extremely important, in fact, it is among those things that make us, humans, special. But there is more to what groundbreaking voice conversion technology can do for vocally impaired people.Consider the expansion of home automation technologies with vocal control. Voice cloning could make people who can’t speak naturally more independent, better able to make use of the devices that can be vocally commanded.Voice assistantsAccording to Ovum's Digital Assistant and Voice AI–Capable Device Forecast: 2016–21, by 2021 voice assistants will outnumber the human beings that live on Earth. Let’s take Google Assistant as an example. Its voice is generated by the text-to-speech system Tacotron 2, based on two deep neural networks.The first transforms the text into a visual representation (i.e., the spectrogram) of audio frequencies over time, and then a WaveNet system analyses the spectrogram and creates audio elements. The outcome is speech that is nearly indistinguishable from human speech, even when it comes to the pronunciation of challenging words.Interactive content for online learning coursesVoice cloning with artificial intelligence makes it unnecessary to record notes for every new session, or to record again in order…