Creating AI Voices with 30 Sentences... KT Launches 'My AI Voice'

Plans to Utilize Giga Genie for Fairy Tale and Weather Guidance

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] KT announced on the 13th that it has launched the ‘My AI Voice’ service, which allows users to easily create their own artificial intelligence (AI) voice with just about 30 sentences.

The newly launched My AI Voice on KT’s ‘AI Voice Studio’ creates an AI voice resembling the user’s own voice by recording only 30 example sentences. Even non-experts can easily produce an AI voice using their own voice, and it can also synthesize voices in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. AI voices created with My AI Voice are stored for the duration of the membership period of AI Voice Studio.

The AI Voice Studio incorporates ‘Few-shot Learning’ technology developed in collaboration with Humelo, a startup specializing in AI-based voice synthesis invested in by KT Investment. Few-shot Learning is a technology that enables AI to efficiently utilize even a small amount of data, allowing the creation of high-quality AI voices from voice data recorded in a short time of around five minutes.

Previously, KT collaborated with the Ministry of National Defense to present gifts applying My AI Voice technology to families of deployed soldiers overseas. For the 27th unit of Dongmyeong Battalion deployed to Lebanon in September, a service was provided where AI voices of the soldiers, created before deployment, read fairy tales to their children. This was also produced as a video advertisement and is being broadcast through the Ministry of National Defense’s official communication channels.

KT also applied My AI Voice technology to the official cheer song for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, ‘Hotter, Korea,’ jointly produced with the Korea Football Association and the official supporters of the national football team, the ‘Red Devils.’ The voice of the late coach Yoo Sang-chul was restored to include narration cheering on the national football team players. The cheer song was released as a music track on the 11th and unveiled during the final evaluation match between South Korea and Iceland held on the same day.

KT plans to expand the application of My AI Voice to services such as the ‘Giga Genie My Voice Fairy Tale Service,’ weather announcements, text messages, and alarm services. An event titled ‘Creating the One and Only Voice of Our Family in the World’ will also be held starting from the 14th.

Choi Jun-gi, Executive Director of KT AI/Big Data Business Division, stated, “Through KT AI Voice Studio, we will demonstrate the infinite scalability of AI voices,” and added, “KT will continue to expand the AI ecosystem through in-house AI technology development and collaboration with startups possessing excellent technology.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.