The Last Humans

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✅ Available Released 2025

Voice in the AI era

Cloning, augmenting, resurrecting — a subtle craft

Author: Patrick de Carvalho

The pitch

The human voice is the last frontier. ElevenLabs, Resemble, OpenAI Voice — in two years, cloning your voice has become trivial. This book tells what it changes for an entrepreneur, an author, a keynote speaker who decides to use their synthetic voice as an instrument rather than a shortcut. Patrick de Carvalho cloned his own in 2024 to produce the audiobook of his books. He documents the ethical trade-offs, the final quality, the cost, and the precise moment when the machine stops being a caricature and becomes an extension of self.

Table of contents

  1. 01 Why voice
  2. 02 Cloning your own — protocol, tools, cost
  3. 03 The six ethical traps
  4. 04 Author voice, keynote voice
  5. 05 Audiobook: the new oral
  6. 06 Resurrecting a lost voice — limits
  7. 07 What remains irreducibly human

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