This PVP Live piece will cover two major news about Microsoft. The first is about Apple Music and Apple TV apps now appearing in the Microsoft Store. The second is about a terrifying Microsoft AI that can “Robo-clone” your voice in just three seconds. Curious? Read on.
Apple Music, Apple TV apps are now in Microsoft Store
In October last year, Microsoft announced that Apple Music and Apple TV apps would arrive at the Microsoft Store in 2023 for installation on Windows devices. This provides significant improvements for users on those platforms who previously had accessed Apple Music via the web or Apple’s outdated iTunes for Windows app and Apple TV+ from the web.
The preview version of those two apps – including an Apple Devices app for managing devices such as iPhones, iPods, and iPads from Windows machines – are now appearing in the Microsoft Store.
According to the app descriptions, Apple noted that being preview versions of these apps, “not all features may work as expected.” The company also provided a warning saying that installing any of these apps will prevent iTunes for Windows from opening. As a result, other content types like podcasts and audiobooks will not be accessible until Apple releases a compatible version of iTunes or the user uninstalls those preview apps.
All three of those new Apple apps require Windows 11 version 22621.0 or higher.
‘Terrifying’ Microsoft AI can ‘clone’ your voice in three seconds
Meanwhile, in other Microsoft news, a Microsoft AI has been created which can “Robo-clone” a human voice within just three seconds. AI or artificial intelligence is meant to be good, but this time, it seems it is getting a little bit terrifying.
A creepy new AI from Microsoft called VALL-E can digitally clone and impersonate your voice in no time. It is an artificial intelligence system capable of mimicking human voices based on just three seconds of audio.
This AI can then be used to turn any written text into speech, making it possible for somebody to put words in your mouth by simply using this tool.
Furthermore, according to media reports such as from Gizmodo, this Microsoft AI is even designed to recreate the speaker’s “emotional range” and pacing, making it a hyper-accurate form of mimicry.
However, this Microsoft AI tool is not yet available to the general public. The company said it is a “neural codec language model” trained on 60,000 hours of English language speech from Meta, the company that owns Microsoft.
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