The incredible lip-syncing AI that lets you put words in Obama’s (and anyone else’s) mouth

‘Researchers have developed new algorithms that can turn audio clips into realistic, lip-synced videos of the person seeming to say those words.
The team generated highly-realistic videos of former president Barack Obama talking about terrorism, fatherhood, job creation and other topics using audio clips, weekly video addresses and even clips from when he attended Harvard Law School, that were originally on a different topic.
The system works by converting audio files of an individual’s speech into realistic mouth shapes – which are then grafted onto the head of that person from another existing video.’

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