[thaumasiotes]

Some (decades old) research on this involved a research team creating a video of JFK saying "I never met Forrest Gump". I found a writeup in Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=mQtGVQeQplcC&pg=PA208&lpg=...

> We evaluated our Kennedy results qualitatively along the following dimensions: ... naturalness of the composited articulation; ...

Obviously the state of the art will have advanced, but maybe this can point the way toward more current research.

While I tend to agree with everyone else that this can be a great idea, my instinct is to float the idea to your wife first and see how she responds. I can imagine someone taking this negatively.

[foepys]

There is a YouTube channel called "Speaking of AI" that makes short fake speeches of some US public figures. The quality is quite good and a bit frightening.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCID5qusrF32kSj-oSGq3rJg/vid...