Voctro’s tech may be familiar as it was involved in the development of a voice clone of musician Holly Herndon which appeared in a viral Ted Talk last year - in which her AI voice could be heard duetting with another musician (Pher)’s real voice in real-time. He tells us more is on the way - including the aforementioned sing-to-sing feature. The combo has already allowed it to expand what it offers - launching a text-to-song feature last December which lets you turn your own lyrics into a vocal composition using generative AI. Voicemod acquired another audio effects startup last year, called Voctro Labs, whose technology Bosch says it’s working to blend with its own to create an amped up hybrid platform. (Banks pushing customers to record ‘a unique voiceprint’ to use as a password definitely need to sit up and start listening.) Mamma-mia!Īrtificial intelligence makes all this possible - even if legal and ethical questions may create pause for thought about rushing to unleash real-time voice-shifting upon a world that still relies plenty upon fixed identities. And even switching between Mercury, May and Taylor, for the full mock opera effect if you have enough trained AI models (and microphones) on hand. Meaning you could get to sing in someone else’s voice - supercharging your karaoke game, say, by singing Bohemian Rhapsody as literally the voice of Freddie Mercury.

But for what’s known as sing-to-sing voice conversion. And not just for talking about the weather or shooting the shit. Think of it as the audio equivalent of a Snapchat lens or TikTok’s viral teenage filter or Reface’s celebrity face-swaps.ĪI voice can even enable voice-shifting into another person’s (real) voice. And even the ability for users to ‘wear’ these voices in real-time - so they can speak with a voice that isn’t theirs. So where DSP technology was about applying effects to a person’s (real) voice, developments in artificial intelligence are enabling startups like Voicemod to offer tools to create entirely synthesized (unreal) voices.

But the audio field is being charged by developments in AI - which Voicemod’s team is hoping will lead to whole new use-cases and many more users for its tools. And gamers do remain its main user-base (for now).

The first thing we ask Voicemod‘s CEO and co-founder, Jamie Bosch, when he picks up the phone to talk about a new funding round is not something we’re accustomed to asking - but our question may become the norm in the generative AI future that’s fast-flying at us: Is this your real voice?īosch’s startup has been fiddling with audio effects for almost a decade, playing in the field of digital signal processing (DSP) - where its early focus was on creating fun ‘sound emoji’ effects and reactions for gamers to spice up their voice chats.

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