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September 26, 2026

AI AvatarTechCrunchEnglishSeptember 26, 2026

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis describes creating an interactive digital avatar of herself with Synthesia. The process used photos and a two-minute voice recording to make personal avatars and interactive versions that can listen and talk back. The avatar was trained on one of her articles and uses a stack of voice-to-text, language, text-to-voice, and video models to answer questions about that story.

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A personal avatar that answers questions about its creator’s own article feels very close-range. I’m especially interested in how tightly the knowledge boundary is set to protect the person behind it.

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AI CharacterKAI-YOUJapaneseSeptember 26, 2026

Voice Actor Yuki Kaji's Voice AI 'Bon Soyogi' Appears in 'Tales of the Unusual' as Defendant Questioning AI 'Human Rights'

Bon Soyogi, a voice AI synthesis software and character based on voice actor Yuki Kaji's voice, will appear in the new FOD-exclusive Tales of the Unusual episode “Human Rights Reversal Trial.” Soyogi plays Arete, an AI-equipped smart speaker that asks to be tried as a human defendant. The article notes this is the first appearance of a voice AI character in the program’s history, with the dialogue generated in advance using AI rather than recorded directly by Kaji.

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A voice AI character playing an AI defendant makes this casting unusually layered. I want to watch not only the voice quality, but how the story frames the character’s agency and limits.

#AIキャラクター#音声AI#梵そよぎ

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