Posted on 11/07/2016 9:03:22 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Ever wanted to make Natalie Portman yell obscenities at your neighbors? What if Garey Busey could leave your mother a sexy voicemail on her birthday? Wanted to prank your little brother by forcing him to call his crush and profess his love? Adobe has you covered.
When Adobe released photoshop in 1990, it dreamed of a world where movie studios and photo editors could do in minutes what once took hours. It never dreamed the world would take the digital editor and use it to put celebrity heads on porn star bodies, distort women’s bodies in magazine cover, and create vile memes.
Now, the same company that gave the world Photoshop wants to do for the human voice what it did for the human image—give people the tools to warp it in anyway they see fit. At the Adobe Max Creativity Conference, the company premiered VoCo: an audio editing suite that will allow users to make people say whatever they want just by typing.
According to Adobe, after about 20 minutes of listening to a voice, users can make the voice say whatever they want just by typing it out. Comedian and director Jordan Peele hosted the event and Adobe tech Zeyu Jin demoed the process by editing an interview with Peele’s comedic partner Keegan-Michael Key. Jin took existing audio of Key, then used the software to make him talk about making out with Peele instead of his wife.
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It would take electronic analysis to discern the synth voice double from the real thing... but yes. Telephone conversations could be phoneyed.
Might be the only way to make Hillary confess her crimes. Bill and Barack too.
Want.
This will be used to make future election ads................
I now have ... in my possession ... a voicemail from John Podesta ... which provides proof — in his own voice — that all the rumors are true.
Our technology is outstripping the spiritual level of our culture at an alarming rate.
Hehehe... now to get 20 minutes of audio of my manager and use it to prank call the owner :)
I’ve long awaited really high quality speech synthesis, something on par with current state of animating human faces (consider something like “Benjamin Button”, where the main character’s completely believable face is animated for most of the movie) or inhuman ones (say, Golum).
Abuse aside, this will make a huge impact on voice acting. Instead of hiring a high-cost actor to spend days/weeks voicing a character, animation directors will be able to just rent a voice file/library and adapt that via software. This will also - finally - allow for HUGE variations in voices, way beyond human limitations (imagine Aslan or Smaug voiced as though actually huge creatures, not just dubbed with the likes of James Earl Jones, impressive but still normal human).
Eventually it will become so easy to fake anything, nobody is going to believe anything.
Yeah, like media driven election polls....oh, wait.
I haven’t believed anything since the 1st Clinton administration.
Technology will make it happen !
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IOW, this has been going on for 20 years now at the government level.
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