Le Monde

General de Gaulle speaks. Or rather his vocal clone, developed for Le Monde by computer scientists and researchers from the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Ircam) and Ircam Amplify, its technology subsidiary.

The challenge was unprecedented: to reconstitute the audio of the June 18, 1940 call, the original recording of which, if it ever existed, has disappeared. A project to better understand the workings and promises of synthesis technologies based on artificial intelligence, and their risks - notably deepfakes.

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