McGettigan, Carolyn;
Bloch, Steven;
Bowles, Cennydd;
Dinkar, Tanvi;
Lavan, Nadine;
Reus, Jonathan Chaim;
Rosi, Victor;
(2025)
Voice conversion and cloning: psychological and ethical implications of intentionally synthesising familiar voice identities.
Journal of the British Academy
, 13
(3)
, Article a31. 10.5871/jba/013.a31.
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Abstract
Voice identity conversion and cloning technologies use artificial intelligence to generate the auditory likeness of a specific human talker’s vocal identity. Given the deeply personal nature of voices, the widening availability of these technologies brings both opportunities and risks for human society. This article outlines key concepts and findings from psychological research on self-voice and other-voice perception that have a bearing on the potential impacts of synthetic voice likenesses on human listeners. Additional insights from speech and language therapy, human–computer interaction, ethics, and the law are incorporated to examine the broader implications of emergent and future voice cloning technologies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Voice conversion and cloning: psychological and ethical implications of intentionally synthesising familiar voice identities |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5871/jba/013.a31 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/013.a31 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The author(s) 2025. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | voice identityvoice synthesisartificial intelligencevoice perceptionpsychologyethics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Language and Cognition |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211895 |
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