Artificial intelligence used to replicate Brown v. Board of Education oral arguments
انتشار: خرداد 01، 1403
بروزرسانی: 29 خرداد 1404

Artificial intelligence used to replicate Brown v. Board of Education oral arguments


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Artificial intelligence used to replicate Brown v. Board of Education ، arguments

By De، C،ens Weiss

Brown v. Board of Education newspaper

The front page of the Russell (Kansas) Daily News on May 17, 1954, announcing that sc،ol segregation is outlawed. (Image from the Li،ry of Congress)

The retired law professor w، founded the Oyez multimedia arc،e of U.S. Supreme Court materials has taken on a new project—creating an audio of the Brown v. Board of Education ، arguments using artificial intelligence.

Brown v. Board of Education was decided 70 years ago. There is no audio recording of the argument in which then-NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall opposed sc،ol segregation and no recording of then-Chief Justice Earl Warren reading the opinion from the bench.

Oyez founder Jerry Goldman used AI to replicate the voices of the litigators and justices, the Wall Street Journal reports via How Appealing.

Goldman worked on the “Brown Revisited” project with the Knight Lab at Northwestern University’s Medill Sc،ol of Journalism and the podcast company Spooler.

To create the audio, Goldman used actors to read the argument transcript. He also found historical recordings of Marshall, Marshall’s chief opponent John W. Davis and the justices, according to the Wall Street Journal.

An AI company called Res،cher made the actors’ voices sound like the people on the historical recordings.

Tony Mauro, a retired journalist w، covers Supreme Court topics at the Marble Palace Blog, listened to the re،uced ، argument.

“It was remarkable,” Mauro wrote on his blog. “Typically, the tapings of Supreme Court arguments come out tinny and distant. But listening to the new AI version is easy and smooth. I felt as if Thurgood Marshall were speaking a few feet away from me.”

The AI-generated audio got mixed reviews from people w، spoke with the Wall Street Journal.

Thurgood Marshall Jr. said one clip of his ،her’s AI-generated voice “was strikingly good in terms of voice quality and intonation.” He described another clip as “meh.”

Warren’s grandson, Jeffrey Earl Warren, said his grand،her’s voice was “gravelly” and “much lower” than the AI voice.

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