Voice AI: Congressional District 16 candidate Sam Liccardo using artificial intelligence to speak to voters [Video]

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) — With less than 30 days to the election and a laryngitis diagnosis, Congressional District 16 candidate Sam Liccardo is turning to artificial intelligence voice technology as he has no voice.

During a meet and greet in Palo Alto Monday afternoon, Liccardo used Speechify, an app that reads aloud text.

He submitted a 20-second sample of a previous speech so the voice would sound like him.

ABC7 played a clip of Liccardo’s real voice and the synthetic one.

“In elections, victory goes to the nimble. We’re hustling to do all that we can to continue to communicate with residents,” Liccardo said via AI.

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