Illness Took Away Her Voice. AI Cloned a Replica She Carries in Her Phone

Source: U.S. News and World ReportThe voice Alexis "Lexi" Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. The 21-year-old loved to belt out Taylor Swift ballads in the car and debate politics with friends over a backyard fire pit. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus. Then, in August, doctors removed a life-threatening brain tumor, and her voice was gone. But last month, she got it back—not her original voice, but a clone generated by artificial intelligence.