#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the early example of voice cloning and audio deepfakes, with some recommending Peele's reaction and others calling the demo fake or never shipped.
What it is
Adobe's VoCo demo from the MAX 2016 Sneak Peeks, co-hosted by Jordan Peele, showing software that changes words in a voiceover by typing new ones.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kmfrk · 2017-07 · 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: [this video] . More technology demos should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
Recommends kmfrk · 2017-07 · 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: [this video] . More technology demo should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
Recommends BrandoElFollito · 2018-01 · on “I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly”
The "Adobe Photoshop for voice" is quite amazing: [this video] (you can skip the first ~third to get to the demo)
Cites felipemesquita · 2017-04 · 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: [this video]
Cites JCharante · 2018-01 · 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 Adobe[0]. I wonder how long until there's an open source alternative. [0] [this video]
Cites minxomat · 2019-11 · on “Few-Shot Video-to-Video Synthesis”
It's been 3 years since Adobe first showed off their voice impression and editing feature (unreleased): [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]
Cites Zenst · 2019-12 · 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. [this video] Certainly interesting times ahead.
Cites jcims · 2021-11 · on “My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours”
There's two ways to think of this as a deepfake: 1 - This is an actual video of the guy in his home, but they changed/synthesized the audio and then worked on the lip movements to make it match. 2 - This is a video of an actor impersonating the guy, possibly to the extent of impersonating his voice (although his timbre might make that a little tricky), and then they just deepfake the face on to the actor. An example of this is deeptomcruise on TikTok, something that you should treat yourself to 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 poss