Jamie Pine has launched Voicebox, a new voice cloning studio built upon the open weight Qwen3-TTS model. The project is positioned as a free, local alternative to the well-known ElevenLabs voice generator. A short demo video is available.
Obviously, there are legitimate uses for voice cloning technology. But in practice, this will be used to enable AI impersonation scams and spam on a massive scale. The GitHub page for this release isn’t exactly encouraging on this front. Demo screenshots show voice clones of YouTuber Linus Tech Tips, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson, and deceased streamer twomad.
Make sure you have a secret passphrase set up with your family, since your voice is no longer uniquely your own.