This AI allows anyone to speak a foreign language

This startup offers artificial intelligence, which will revolutionize the translation industry.

Want to rewatch Tim Cook’s keynote from September 12, but have trouble understanding the English or following the rough verses with your eyes? HeyGen can change translation codes thanks to an AI that makes anyone speak a different language.

Released in its beta form in July 2022, HeyGen first became known for its platform, which allows you to create videos designed using artificial intelligence without any editing capabilities. The principle is simple: write a script, choose a voice, and let the 3D avatar dictate the text for you.

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ElevenLabs has already made waves with AI that allows for voice cloning at your fingertips, but HeyGen’s tool can handle dubbing directly with a confusing level of lip syncing. The translation tool is already offered in 9 possible languages ​​(US English, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, German, Polish and Portuguese).

The process is again very simple: film yourself for at least 30 seconds (up to 5 minutes) and upload your video in mp4, quicktime or webm format (up to 500 MB). Very quickly, Internet users began to test the reality of AI.

A shocking realism that is not to the taste of the dubbing or translation industries in fields directly threatened by the emergence of AI. This summer, around twenty unions and trade union organizations from Europe, the US and Latin America joined together to form the United Voice Organization (UVO), campaigning under the slogan “Don’t Steal Our Voices” for legislation integrating AI and human creation.