Reproducing voice that sounds identical to users with the latest technology
al+’s voice clone technology was introduced in the program at NHK’s "Life commentary". (Aired on March 3, 2017 (Fri) 10: 05 - 10: 15)
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"Evolving synthetic speech" (Living Commentary) (Tetsuya Muroyama, Commentator)
 
About Living Commentary
 
Airing date：Tues～Fri 10:05am～10:15am
The NHK commentator analyzes the meaning, background of news, and future tasks and so on from a professional perspective and explains it simply in 10 minutes. (Quoted from program official website)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kaisetsu/kurashi/
 
Related press releases: Voice cloning technology al+ About joint research with National Institute of Informatics (October 5, 2016)
 
Commencement of joint research on voice clone generation
http://www.nii.ac.jp/userimg/press_20161005.pdf
Artificial Intelligence al+ started joint research to generate voice clones from a small volume of human speech samples with Associate Professor Yamagishi Junichi of NII National Institute of Informatics
http://www.news2u.net/releases/149019