Voice cloning: Psychological and ethical implications of intentionally synthesising familiar voice identities.

Voice cloning technology uses artificial intelligence to resynthesise a human talker's vocal identity. Given the deeply personal nature of voices, the widening availability of voice clones brings both advantages and risks for human society. This article outlines key concepts and findings from psychological research on self- 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.