Renowned Taiwan musician uses AI to create digital version of only daughter who died at 22 to sing happy birthday to grieving mother
- Daughter dies, parents grieve, cannot talk to each other for 6 months
- Father uses AI to recreate her, says image was fairly easy, voice much harder
Well-known Taiwan musician Tino Bao has used artificial intelligence, or AI, technology to “resurrect” his only daughter who passed away at the age of 22 to sing a birthday song to her mother, moving many people online.
Bao, 56, released a video clip of the digital version of his daughter, Bao Rong, telling her mother “I miss you”, before singing happy birthday to her in Mandarin.
Bao told the Taiwan media outlet Future City in February that recreating his daughter’s image was fairly easy, as they have kept many photos of hers, but recreating her voice took more work.
The mainland team he worked with trained the generative audio model using only three English sentences his daughter spoke while having a video call with her mother.
He said the recreation of her voice meant a lot to him as she could not speak at the end of her life, due to the treatment she was receiving.
She died from a rare blood disease in 2021 after two years of treatment.