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projects. But it comes at a high cost. When I reached out to Respeecher recently to give their service a try, they informed me that “a project usually takes several weeks with fees from 4-digit to 6-digit in $USD.”I didn’t have thousands of dollars to spend, so I went with a little-known startup calledinstead. All I had to do was upload a 30-minute video of me reading text of my choice, then wait a few hours.
Play.ht is a text-to-speech service, so I didn’t need to hire a voice actor. Once it had been trained on my voice, the software could generate realistic human speech from written text in just a few minutes. Best of all, I didn’t have to pay a dime. I was able to clone my voice using Play.ht’s free plan. Commercial plans start at $39 per month.Realistic text-to-speech systems like Play.ht are hard to build because human beings pronounce the same word differently depending on the context.
A voice-to-voice system like Respeecher doesn’t need to worry about these issues as much because it can follow the lead of the voice actor who supplied the source audio. In a text-to-speech system, in contrast, the A.I. system needs to understand human speech well enough to know how long to pause, which words to emphasize, and so forth.in 2017 and has become the foundation of many generative A.I. systems since then.
To test Overdub out, I created another 12-paragraph audio file using Descript and challenged family and friends to say which paragraphs were my real voice and which were generated by Overdub. This was far from a rigorous scientific experiment, but overall it seemed like the cloned voice generated by Play.ht was a bit more convincing than the one generated by Descript’s Overdub technology.
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