... In a video posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo, the 33-year-old singer can be seen flaunting her Mandarin in what looks to be a talk show.
“Recently, I’ve been to many places, like Italy, France and Japan,” Swift said in Mandarin with a slight American twang. ...
The deepfake videos were generated by an AI tool from Chinese start-up HeyGen, reported news outlet The China Project.
The lip movements were synced to make it look like she was speaking in Mandarin, and it sounded like Swift’s voice, making the videos so realistic that it led Chinese netizens to express their amazement at the technology and leave comments such as: “This is awesome.” ...
Its AI-powered video generator allows users to create text-to-speech videos in over 300 voices in more than 40 languages, using over 100 AI avatars with different ethnicities, ages, poses and clothes. ...
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