Thanks to AI, he recreates his dead father's voice and gives it to his mother

VS'A Christmas present that shook his mother's heart. gift? A recording with the late husband's voice. To do this, Philip Willett, A American The 27-year-old used artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of his father, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2022, reports Good Morning America.

A video of his mother's reaction, posted on social networking site Tik Tok on Friday, December 22, has gone viral and has already garnered nearly seven million views.

While he admits he was skeptical when his wife pitched the idea to him, the content creator was convinced. He then downloaded several archived videos into ElevenLabs software and let the magic happen. “I got chills all over,” he admitted after hearing the first words generated by the AI. “That's when I said to myself, 'I'm doing this, no matter what,'” he continues.

“Summary their lives together”

The video was accompanied by Philip Willett scrolling through photographs of both his parents, accompanied by the father's voice. “It's been a long time since we heard his voice…” he wrote.

“What the AI ​​was able to do with this video was condense their lives together,” he concludes. “I wanted the video to feel like a portal, where she could open this book and dive into it and feel the emotion of their relationship.”

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