Make audiobooks with the author’s voice. Produce new content using voices from the past.
Our unique technology changes your voice to that of another person (e.g., a celebrity) while preserving all the subtle detail of how you say what you say.
Dub movies and TV shows with fewer actors, or change actors while keeping the same voice. Add dialog and voiceovers in an actor's voice without the presence of the actor.
Make audiobooks with the author’s voice. Produce new content using voices from the past.
Make your call center speak with one voice, or target different voices at different customers.
Sing karaoke in the voice of the original singer. Speak in your character's voice in video games.
Speak like yourself, again or for the first time.
We use proprietary deep learning (artificial intelligence) techniques to produce high quality synthetic speech. These techniques are related to those used in the latest text-to-speech systems. But speech-to-speech can be more dynamic and emotional than even the best text-to-speech. And speech-to-speech makes the most sense when the content is being generated by a human.
Voice conversion can be used to fool people into thinking someone said something they didn't. This kind of deception is similar to lying and is often morally wrong, just as lying often is. In particular, it is wrong to defraud people or to create fake news, and voice conversion can make it easier to do a good job at these things.
At Respeecher, we are interested in preventing our technology from being used for bad ends and, more generally, in limiting the total harm caused by bad uses of all synthetic speech technology.
We restrict usage of our high-quality voice conversion systems to non-deceptive content-creation applications by limiting who we work with and what we allow them to do with our technology. If you want to make fake news or defraud people, don't call us because we won't help you!
The more general aim of limiting the harm caused by bad uses of synthetic voice technology that is not ours is less fully achievable. Whatever controls we establish over our own technology, highly realistic voice conversion and text-to-speech systems will become more and more widely available over the next few years and will no doubt sometimes be used for bad ends. We hope that Respeecher's technology, being early to market, will help educate the public about what is technically possible and make people less likely to fall for deceptive synthetic speech. We also think that an important role in limiting this harm can be played by gatekeepers of content such as Facebook and YouTube, and we are ready to work with such platforms to detect and prominently label synthetic speech. If you have ideas about how we can make synthetic speech technology as positive and un-diabolical a technology as possible, we'd love to hear from you.
