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Grieving dad uses AI to keep daughter 'alive in digital world'
"No parent should have to bury their child," said Théoden, King of Rohan, in The Two Towers. But life at times does not follow the natural order of things. Taiwanese musician Tino Bao and his wife Lo Mei-yi lost their only child Bao Rong in 2021. The...
Bao told South China Morning Post that he and his wife hardly exchanged words between them for about half-a-year following their daughter's death, lest they said something that would touch a raw nerve. With the help of a team, Bao trained a program to recreate his daughter's voice using snippets from a video call conversation between her and his wife. “AI is a tool we have used to express our love for her,” said Bao, adding that the AI-generated image and voice of their daughter have helped them reconnect.
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