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Adobe demonstrates its experimental VoCo software, which allows users to edit voiceovers by typing new words, alongside Jordan Peele.

Visit Adobe Creative Cloud for more information: adobe.com/creativecloud.html #VoCo is an audio manipulator that allows you to change words in a voiceover simply by typing new words. Presented live during the Adobe MAX 2016 Sneak Peeks, co-hosted by Jordan Peele. Learn more about this year's Sneak Peeks here: adobe.ly/2ffyder Subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud: youtube.com/AdobeCreativeCloud?sub_confirmation=1 Download Adobe Express: adobe.ly/3rDM7M8 Learn More: adobe.com/products/photoshop/explore.html?sdid=H822XMCW&mv=s… About Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world's best creative apps so you can turn your brightest ideas into your greatest work across your desktop and mobile devices. Connect with Adobe Creative Cloud: Twitter: twitter.com/creativecloud LinkedIn: linkedin.com/showcase/adobe-creative-cloud/ Facebook: facebook.com/adobecreativecloud Instagram: instagram.com/adobecreativecloud/ #VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud youtube.com/watch?v=JYtZ2zsdE_sI3l4XLZ59iw

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What people say. Linked as an early, famous example of voice cloning technology, though some users dispute whether the demo was fully synthesized.

kmfrkon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]”

I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction: link to this video . More technology demos should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
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kmfrkon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]”

I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction: link to this video . More technology demo should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
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BrandoElFollitoon Hacker News • Recommends

On “I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly”

The "Adobe Photoshop for voice" is quite amazing: link to this video (you can skip the first ~third to get to the demo)
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stevenhon Hacker News • Disputes

On “Adobe Voco 'Photoshop-for-voice' causes concern”

link to this video "Wife" sounds exactly the same in both places, so all this did was copy the exact waveform from one point to another. Nothing is being synthesized. If this is all this app can do, it would be quicker and easier to do this manually. That little "guh" noise at the beginning of the first "wife" could also be manually cleaned up and pitch/formant shifted to sound more natural with respect to its position in the sentence. link to this video The word "Jordan" is not being synthesized. He was recorded saying "Jordan" beforehand for this insertion demo and they're trying to play it off as though this was synthesized on the fly. This is all a scripted performance. Jordan is phoning in his task of feigni…
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stevenhon Hacker News • Disputes

On “Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech”

I agree and I've upvoted you, but I feel it's worth pointing out that Adobe's claim about their own progress in this field was fake news. link to this video "Wife" sounds exactly the same in both places. All they did was copy the exact waveform from one point to another. Nothing is being synthesized. link to this video The word "Jordan" is not being synthesized. The speaker was recorded saying "Jordan" beforehand for this insertion demo and they're trying to play it off as though it was synthesized on the fly. This is a scripted performance and Jordan is feigning surprise. link to this video The phrase "three times" here was prerecorded. This was a phony demonstration of a nonexistent product. Reporters parroted the claims…
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stevenhon Hacker News • Disputes

On “Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone”

Lyrebird has real tech capable of doing what they claim, whereas Adobe's demo was completely fake. link to this video "Wife" sounds exactly the same in both places. All they did was copy the exact waveform from one point to another, like an automated cut and paste in Audacity. Nothing is being synthesized. link to this video The word "Jordan" is not being synthesized. The speaker was recorded saying "Jordan" beforehand for this insertion demo and they're trying to play it off as though it was synthesized on the fly. That's incredibly dishonest. This is a scripted performance and Jordan is feigning surprise. link to this video Again, the phrase "three times" here was prerecorded. This was a phony demonstration of a nonexiste…
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felipemesquitaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone”

This site has a "demo" section featuring only Soundcloud clips. Uses to much the present tense "In a world first, Montreal-based startup Lyrebird today unveiled" and "Record 1 minute ... and Lyrebird can ..Use this key to generate anything" but has no actual product or beta version. Adobe had a much more impressive sneak peek of a similar product called VoCo: link to this video
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JCharanteon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence”

> and probably audio too I've grown to completely distrust audio recording ever since I found out about VoCo from Adobe0. I wonder how long until there's an open source alternative. 0 link to this video
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minxomaton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Few-Shot Video-to-Video Synthesis”

It's been 3 years since Adobe first showed off their voice impression and editing feature (unreleased): link to this video Though this is very impressive, it seems to take longer and longer to make those tiny improvements that make all the difference wrt believability. N.B. The most convincing TTS I've ever heard (predating Lyre by quite a bit) generated things like this: link
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Zenston Hacker News • Mentions

On “Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552”

Thinking ahead - will Hollywood in 50 years time be actor based or digital rights based when your film is computer rendered and you pick your own actors that get digitally placed. Effectively reducing actors to DLC! Remember, technology to fake voices has already be done. link to this video Certainly interesting times ahead.
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jcimson Hacker News • Mentions

On “My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours”

…if you haven't seen yet - link (first two today aren't great, here's a good one - link ? ) I'm not even convinced there's any alteration here, but even if there was both of the above could be possible. Adobe demoed something called VoCo in 2016 that never saw the light of day, not sure if there is something approximating this available today: link to this video…
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aasasdon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese”

There was Adobe Voco, which seemed kind of a forerunner: link to this video , link . It purportedly could edit speech like an audio editor and looked like a destroyer of authenticity. And then nothing was heard of it anymore. (Edit: Wikipedia says that VoCo takes “approximately 20 minutes of the desired target's speech”, and that it was a research prototype.) There was a thing called Tacotron from a team at Google, in 2018: link (In fact, the OP repo and the original CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning apparently rely on Tacotron.) And there was something from 2019: link , link The latter two seem to need more samples than pure real-time editing. Overall, to me a layman, this space appears quiete…
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vunderbaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform”

I remember when Adobe demoed this idea of being able to edit waveforms by the recognized text back in 2016 and it was pretty mind blowing for the time. link to this video EDIT: I could also definitely see Audapolis being useful if you could integrate it into a podcast's post processing flow (volume normalization, de-essing) by recognizing certain verbal tics and automatically removing them from the audio such as "ummmm...", etc.
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