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You Can Now Craft Near Endless Amounts of AI Voices to Annoy Your Friends With Voicemod
Voicemod, the real-time AI voice-changing app, is now letting anybody craft whatever kind of voice they want, though limited by a selection of preset baseline vocals. The Voicemod app, first introduced last year, was a quaint program that let users modulate their vocals with AI based on a swathe of presets, such as “Morgan” to…
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Now You Can Narrate Your Friend’s Lives Like Morgan Freeman With Augmented Voice
I wanted to see how alike I could be to HAL-9000 in my own, ragged rendition of the song Daisy Bell. It turns out, I actually sound better as the vague approximation of the demented artificial intelligence from 2001: A Space Odyssey than either HAL’s actor Douglas Rain or my normal, human voice.
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A Curious Robot Breaks Out of Its Shell in Clever Sci-Fi Short System Error
On a near-future Earth, advanced alien technology has made the world a fully automated but pretty dull place. In a generic convenience store, a man (David Quirk) buying ice cream attempts to befriend the “service unit” who rings up his order — triggering an identity crisis for the robot, George (Nick Nemeroff), who realises maybe…