As someone who's terrible at names, I can totally get behind this technology:
The University of Georgia is using this too:
This year, the university, which serves more than 19,000 students, plans to adopt a third-party service that uses AI technology to clone the voices of compensated 'professional voice artists' and create synthetic recordings of students' names. Students can then review the recordings before the ceremony and send them back for alterations if they're wrong.
In fact, several universities are using this technology at graduation, and the reviews from students are not good on this one.
Students at the University of North Georgia protested the decision on campus.
A Change.org petition protesting the development that went live on April 4 had more than 1,800 signatures as of [April 10].
Signatures have reached 2,070.
A Northeastern student wrote:
This choice registered as disrespectful, lazy and, frankly, on-brand for Northeastern, a university that has prioritized its stature as a technology-forward university at every possible turn.
Another,
Our names are getting read by AI at graduation ... getting the ick at my own graduation.
The comments are pretty mixed though:
It won't be long and we'll have robots up there on stage handing diplomas to students.
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