Artificial Intelligent Voices WEB
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- Artificial Intelligent Voices WEB
- February 20, 2023
- Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Artificial Intelligent Voices (TV, R) HEADLINE: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads TEASER: A Seattle startup uses AI to produce audio that resembles real human voices. PUBLISHED AT: 02/20/2023 at 10:15AM BYLINE: Philip Dierking CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: SEATTLE, Wash. VIDEOGRAPHER: Philip Dierking VIDEO EDITOR: Philip Dierking SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, Sharon Shahid VIDEO SOURCE (S): Zoom, VOA, Storyblocks, WellSaid Labs PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:48 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There will be a LogOn version of this story)) ((INTRO)) [[A growing number of startups are using artificial intelligence to replicate human voices. A company is creating synthetic voices for organizations to use for advertising, marketing and training. Phil Dierking reports.]] ((DEMO)) ((Sara Weisweaver)) “She has a narration style, a promo style and a conversational style. So, I'll paste this in, and we can just click create.” ((Voice)) “With AI voices delivering increasingly more human performances, content creators ….” ((Nats, AI narrator)) “This voice is synthetic, the product of a human actor’s voice and technology. ((Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs CEO)) “We can take a smaller dataset and train on the pitch, pausing, intonation, emphasis and more of the stylistic qualities of the voice to really capture that authentic voice in the production.” ((Courtesy: WellSaidLabs)) ((NARRATOR)) Matt Hocking is the CEO of WellSaid Labs, a Seattle technology firm that spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research nonprofit. He is working to create computerized voices to sound, well, more human. Customers use these voices in advertising, marketing … ((Courtesy: WellSaidLabs)) and training courses without having to hire voice actors. A voice actor records at WellSaid Labs. From that recording, the firm uses artificial intelligence to teach software subtle things. How long a voice actor pauses, when they take a breath, what words are emphasized. A customer picks among voices and enters text they want the voice to say. ((Courtesy: YouTube.com/WellSaid3112)) ((Nats, Voice)) “... It’s great to finally meet you. I’m Wade, and I’ve been told that my good natured and honest voice is great, for all types of e-learning and training content...” ((end courtesy)) ((NARRATOR)) WellSaid Labs is part of a tech trend called generative AI, software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create new content, words, voices, or images, based on vast amount of data the technology has learned. AI applications sometimes raise ethical concerns. WellSaid Labs has created guidelines for customers using the generated voices. [[FOR RADIO: Sara Weisweaver, is Director of Ethics and Community at WellSaid Labs She spoke to VOA in an interview.]] ((Sara Weisweaver, WellSaid Labs Ethics Director)) “They can't use their voices for anything pornographic or anything hateful or anything violent, and anything illegal.” ((Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) ((NARRATOR)) With A.I. moving into many fields, creative professionals are asking how they will be affected. [[FOR RADIO: Gabby Fernandes is a voice actor with WellSaid Labs. She spoke to VOA over Zoom]] ((Gabby Fernandes, Voice Actor)) ((Courtesy: Zoom)) “As long as there's still like a human at the center of it, and we're building off of that, I feel more comfortable doing something that might be a little bit more computer generated.” ((NARRATOR)) Another concern: Will jobs be eliminated? Maybe, say observers, but generative AI like WellSaid might also increase creative output and improve performance. [[FOR RADIO: Vu Ha is a technical director with the AI2 Incubator, which also spun out of the Allen Institute for AI. He spoke to VOA over Zoom]] ((Vu Ha, AI2 Incubator)) ((Courtesy: Zoom)) “I think more often than not, it's going to be a kind of collaboration between humans and AI to really streamline and speed up the process of creation.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) It may be too early to know the consequences … ((end courtesy)) of generative AI like WellSaid Labs. But it’s likely here to stay. (Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) ((For VOA News, Phil Dierking, Seattle Washington))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Artificial Intelligent Voices (TV, R) HEADLINE: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads TEASER: A Seattle startup uses AI to produce audio that resembles real human voices. PUBLISHED AT: 02/20/2023 at 10:15AM BYLINE: Philip Dierking CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: SEATTLE, Wash. VIDEOGRAPHER: Philip Dierking VIDEO EDITOR: Philip Dierking SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, Sharon Shahid VIDEO SOURCE (S): Zoom, VOA, Storyblocks, WellSaid Labs PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO _X_ TRT: 2:48 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There will be a LogOn version of this story)) ((INTRO)) [[A growing number of startups are using artificial intelligence to replicate human voices. A company is creating synthetic voices for organizations to use for advertising, marketing and training. Phil Dierking reports.]] ((DEMO)) ((Sara Weisweaver)) “She has a narration style, a promo style and a conversational style. So, I'll paste this in, and we can just click create.” ((Voice)) “With AI voices delivering increasingly more human performances, content creators ….” ((Nats, AI narrator)) “This voice is synthetic, the product of a human actor’s voice and technology. ((Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs CEO)) “We can take a smaller dataset and train on the pitch, pausing, intonation, emphasis and more of the stylistic qualities of the voice to really capture that authentic voice in the production.” ((Courtesy: WellSaidLabs)) ((NARRATOR)) Matt Hocking is the CEO of WellSaid Labs, a Seattle technology firm that spun out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research nonprofit. He is working to create computerized voices to sound, well, more human. Customers use these voices in advertising, marketing … ((Courtesy: WellSaidLabs)) and training courses without having to hire voice actors. A voice actor records at WellSaid Labs. From that recording, the firm uses artificial intelligence to teach software subtle things. How long a voice actor pauses, when they take a breath, what words are emphasized. A customer picks among voices and enters text they want the voice to say. ((Courtesy: YouTube.com/WellSaid3112)) ((Nats, Voice)) “... It’s great to finally meet you. I’m Wade, and I’ve been told that my good natured and honest voice is great, for all types of e-learning and training content...” ((end courtesy)) ((NARRATOR)) WellSaid Labs is part of a tech trend called generative AI, software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create new content, words, voices, or images, based on vast amount of data the technology has learned. AI applications sometimes raise ethical concerns. WellSaid Labs has created guidelines for customers using the generated voices. [[FOR RADIO: Sara Weisweaver, is Director of Ethics and Community at WellSaid Labs She spoke to VOA in an interview.]] ((Sara Weisweaver, WellSaid Labs Ethics Director)) “They can't use their voices for anything pornographic or anything hateful or anything violent, and anything illegal.” ((Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) ((NARRATOR)) With A.I. moving into many fields, creative professionals are asking how they will be affected. [[FOR RADIO: Gabby Fernandes is a voice actor with WellSaid Labs. She spoke to VOA over Zoom]] ((Gabby Fernandes, Voice Actor)) ((Courtesy: Zoom)) “As long as there's still like a human at the center of it, and we're building off of that, I feel more comfortable doing something that might be a little bit more computer generated.” ((NARRATOR)) Another concern: Will jobs be eliminated? Maybe, say observers, but generative AI like WellSaid might also increase creative output and improve performance. [[FOR RADIO: Vu Ha is a technical director with the AI2 Incubator, which also spun out of the Allen Institute for AI. He spoke to VOA over Zoom]] ((Vu Ha, AI2 Incubator)) ((Courtesy: Zoom)) “I think more often than not, it's going to be a kind of collaboration between humans and AI to really streamline and speed up the process of creation.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) It may be too early to know the consequences … ((end courtesy)) of generative AI like WellSaid Labs. But it’s likely here to stay. (Courtesy: WellSaid Labs)) ((For VOA News, Phil Dierking, Seattle Washington))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date February 20, 2023 13:54 EST
- Byline Philip Dierking
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America