AI Voices

Alex Hern, Guardian, Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant, 23 June 2022 “Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears.” It will be interesting to see the Islamic responses to this technology. This includes the ethical implications of using a deceased person’s voice. It might also be applied to generate sermons or speeches from texts of deceased individuals, if there is sufficient existing audio content available in appropriate quality. It’s not clear if this technology is across all languages yet. But, in the meantime, I am awaiting the first fatwa on this …