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Respeecher Gives YouTubers New Ways to Amaze their Audiences

 

Jolly is a popular YouTube channel run by two friends — Josh and Ollie. They came to fame in 2013 from another channel they started called Korean Englishman, with the goal of introducing Korean culture to the masses.

The two friends create different types of funny content and always try to come up with new ways to amaze their subscribers. As they say about themselves on their channel, “On this channel you'll find two best friends who have spent too much time on the internet, and in any given video pretty much anything can happen!”. “Anything can happen” directly relates to the YouTube content of these besties and the way they treat each other.

Last year, Ollie secretly ghost-wrote and published Josh’s autobiography which became a great success for the Jolly duo. However, Josh had no interested in reading his “own” masterpiece, even for a much requested audiobook.

That’s why Ollie stepped in and presented the audio version of Josh's autobiography…  told by Josh himself!

So you don’t get confused, let’s go through all the details of how Ollie created this extraordinary present.

 

The Challenge

 

So, Ollie secretly wrote Josh’s autobiography and voiced it himself. But the main idea was to give this story the voice of its hero. That’s why it had to have Josh’s voice. 

The book was around 2,5 hours long and involved lines with different characters. This meant that special attention had to be paid to maintaining certain timbres, voice tones, cadences, emotional accents, and so on. 

Another major hurdle was to deliver the project in the midst of an ongoing war. The execution of the project coincided with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ollie contacted us to say that there is no urgent need to continue our work on the audiobook under the current circumstances. However, we felt like we had to keep working, produce new projects, and spread the Ukrainian product worldwide.

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The Solution

To turn Ollie’s idea into a reality, Respeecher trained models that were capable of addressing the cadences and emotions of the people in the story to deliver the best experience possible. The technology delivers:

  • Pitch perfect quality. Our voice swaps are virtually indistinguishable from the original — and always sound natural. They convey all the nuances and emotions of human speech and maintain the highest production value.

  • Eliminate text-to-speech pitfalls. Our clients tell us that even the best text-to-speech solutions have a robotic, non-emotional delivery. They also struggle with unusual words, foreign languages, or nuances like humming and giggling. TakeBaker allows for speech-to-speech conversion technology that delivers far superior results.

  • Creative control. The tool allows for making changes to the scripted words at any time during the creative process without re-recording the target voice.

In order to achieve natural-sounding results and create a pitch-perfect voice-to-voice swapping model, Respeecher trained a neural model of Josh’s voice. Once the model was ready, Ollie could use it to convert his voice into Josh’s.

 

The Result

 

As a result, Ollie’s audio autobiography of Josh manifested as if Josh was telling his own story himself. The audio track is completely natural-sounding, considering the different characters, tones of voice, and emotional accents.

The process of creating a synthetic voice is always engaging and interesting, especially as that voice develops into the final product. But we are always very eager to see (or should we say — hear) the result and get the reaction from the customer. Since the customer was such a creative person, we were happy to see the total range of emotions upon delivery of the completed project. 

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Ollie then recorded a video, in which he presented the audiobook to Josh. 

“You are about to become the first person in history to unknowingly read, record, and
release your own audiobook!
” said Josh right before presenting the surprise to Ollie.

Just take a look at how surprised and impressed Ollie is!

 

 

Voice Cloning for YouTubers

 

With the help of speech synthesis, YouTubers can free up more time as voiceovers can be done without them. This allows a content creator to spend this reclaimed time coming up with new creative ideas. Here are some of the critical benefits that voice cloning delivers to the YouTube community:

 

Coping with Burnout


If you follow any popular YouTuber, you know they never take a break. While not always noticeable to viewers, burnout has a considerable impact on the health and motivation of video bloggers.

Voice cloning can not replace a blogger in a video frame, but if you watch any third-person video reviews, it can ultimately save you from studio work for a while.

Any member of your team can dub audio content and then have their voice easily cloned to match yours. The best part is that all this can be done while you enjoy a well-deserved seaside vacation.

 

Saving time and resources on producing new content

 

Managers of large YouTube projects know that their audience is ready to consume significantly more content than they are able to release. To a large extent, restrictions on production are explained by the fact that a channel is tied to one or two hosts. And people are always a risk factor.

Voice cloning services can help bring a large team together for content production. This is because production teams no longer have to depend on an actor’s physical presence in a studio.

 

Coming up with new video ideas

 

This is perhaps one of the main problems for those who run YouTube channels. How else to surprise the audience?

With speech synthesis, a third party is now able to speak using the voice of a YouTuber. Remember that the host of a channel can speak using other people's voices as well. Imagine a famous blogger suddenly speaking with the voice of an equally famous YouTuber from another channel. Or, for example, using the voice of an iconic movie hero or villain, a child or grandmother, crying like a baby, or roaring like a lion. 

Respeecher frees creators from tedious and time-consuming processes while providing them with more space to generate new ideas for content and their implementation. Try it to see for yourself!

 

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Reid Hoffman

LinkedIn Co-founder, Microsoft Board Member, Investor, Podcaster

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Bear Grylls

TV presenter and adventurer

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Jennifer Trent

Head of Post Production at Blumhouse

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Halsey Burgund

Co-Director In Event of Moon Disaster

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Ryan Steelberg

President and co-founder of Veritone

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David Romberg

Media, Communication & Film Studies, Muhlenberg College

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Abigail Savage

Sound Designer and Supervisor, Actress

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Tim Jones

Emmy Award Winning Animation Producer

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Michael York

Actor, Producer

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Joseph López Osorio

Marketing Technology Director, DDB Latina

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Edgardo Rivera

President & CEO, DDB Puerto Rico

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Joshua Madoff

Composer, Actor

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James Tumminia

Producer & President at Italus Films

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Sophie Robinson

Director, 141 Productions

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Steve Isaacs

EVP, Legion Creative

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Derek Kedell

Producer, Renegade Animation, Inc.

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Jacob Mosler

Line Producer, Religion of Sports

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Bev Standing

Voice Over Actor & Coach

Respeecher also matched my voice to Scott’s professional reading of the Impromptu text. The end result is a nearly perfect audio artifact with amazing intonation. It sounds flawlessly human—though a bit less of a match to “my” voice than the Vall-E recording—and most importantly, similarly didn’t require multiple days of my time to record. If we hadn’t prioritized releasing an early version to show folks what that sounded like, the Respeecher team was confident that with more iterations we could have gotten it near-perfect.
We worked with Respeecher to recreate my voice in Ukrainian to as part of our education initiative ‘BecomingX Ukraine’. The technology is phenomenal and the result is astounding – I never thought I’d hear myself speaking fluent Ukrainian! Well done and thank to all the team for all your incredible work you are doing. We’re forever grateful and proud to partner with you.
We used Respeecher to de-age the voice of a well-known actor in one of our movies. We were nervous that it wouldn’t work very well since the actor is in her 80s and we needed to de-age her down to mid-forties. Even though there was such a huge age jump, the end result from Respeecher was amazing, and added a level of authenticity to our movie. Everyone from our director through our entire post team was excited to work with Repeecher. Hopefully we will be able to do so many more times in the future.
We worked with Respeecher on a film called ‘In Event of Moon Disaster’ first shown at the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival 2019. They helped us create a synthetic voice of Richard Nixon to bring to life a never-read contingency speech in case the Apollo 11 mission went badly. We created a highly realistic film, in a large part due to their work. ‘In Event of Moon Disaster’ shows the creative possibility of voice replacement technology as well as highlighting just how realistic deepfake technologies can be, acting as a civic engagement project for the public along with contextual and educational resources.
For Veritone, the most important thing is ensuring our clients get access to technology without compromising on the ability to protect, the delivery speed and quality, and in this case, of the generated content. Respeecher's technology meets both requirements and has a proven track record of working with tier one projects.
When I approached the team at Respeecher with a very sensitive and personal documentary project, I didn't know what to expect. I’m happy to say that it has been an amazing experience. They are extremely professional, ethically minded and are genuinely passionate about bringing their innovative technology to the world. Their approach to the voice cloning process is highly personal and transparent. As a documentarian, it was important to me that the approach was ethical and human focused. The Team at Respeecher delivered on their promises and I could not be happier with the results.
Respeecher is a remarkable tool for Sound Editors. It delivers very high-fidelity recreations of a target voice, with transparent performance-matching of its source. It blows text-to-speech out of the water! The effect is uncanny and incredibly effective and I can imagine a whole slew of uses going forward. I am very excited to have discovered Respeecher, and it will be my go-to for voice recreation in the future, without question.
Respeecher's source/target conversion of Mr. York's speaking voice demonstrably opens doors for the entertainment, education, and healthcare fields. Suffice it to say, it was an absolute honor to collaborate with them. Their brilliant accomplishment and timely delivery have allowed our humble project to be a success, exceeding our expectations for what's even possible.
I am very grateful to Respeecher for giving my words and work a whole new lease on life. The technique involved is as ingenious as it is amazing, and promises a great future for all those involved in voice work. With Respeecher, the quality of the re-worked passages is indistinguishable from the original. History comes almost miraculously alive again. I heartily endorse this product.
Discovering Respeecher was the highlight of our project. They agreed to work with the task even when our training data was not of the best quality. The result was fantastic, and the level of detail was just outstanding.
Working with Reespecher was a unique experience. Their attentiveness to detail and dedication to this project allowed us to reconnect with one of our lost narration idols in Puerto Rico "Manuel Rivera Morales" on a new level. It gave his family and PR a glimpse of what could have been if he was still alive and narrating all sorts of Olympic sports games. It was truly magical to see this project come alive.
Working with Respeecher has been incredible. Their team was meticulous and patient, walking us through the process of developing an accurate model... and the final result was nothing short of miraculous. It really sounds like we’re hearing our (deceased) subject speaking again. Something I never would have thought was possible.
From the introduction to Respeecher’s innovative and state-of-the-art products to the thorough and quick technical support, I immediately felt that I found the perfect partner and technology for my projects’ needs. During our discussions, the team offered other creative options that assured me we were on the same page and had my project’s success as a top priority. The Respeecher team members are consummate professionals.
Making a film which was so sensitive we needed a company who understood the sensibilities and ethical issues we were dealing with. From the first meeting with them, Respeecher acted with respect and professionalism, delivered what we wanted brilliantly, efficiently and to spec.
When Legion Creative took on the challenge of bringing MTV’s Kurt Loder back to his mid ’90s glory for the Showtime original Yellowjackets, we needed a resource to bring his voice in line with his de-aged visual appearance. Respeecher worked quickly, with clear communication and helped us achieve the time-warping magic we were looking for.
Using the Respeecher technology as a powerful filter for our recorded dialogue allowed us to quickly solve a voice-over challenge that could have completely derailed our production timeline and set us back several months. Their easy-to-use online web interface allowed us to resolve our problem in a matter of weeks and with very minimal impact on our overall schedule. Their friendly staff were extremely responsive to our feedback and provided excellent guidance on the use of the amazing technology.
Respeecher brought the voice of WILT CHAMBERLAIN sonically back to life allowing Wilt to posthumously narrate his own documentary series GOLIATH [Showtime & Paramount+]. Our experience working with their team was a pleasure from start to finish. They embraced the creative challenge of building a practically perfect replication of Wilt's voice from hours of archival to carefully match the narration led by our voiceover actor's performance of Wilt's own words selected from his books. Their technicians paid fastidious attention to detail and contineud to work with our directors feedback to adjust the nuance of Wilt's voice until it was seemingly flawless. The Estate of Wilt Chamberlain authorized our team to create a 3-hour series documenting his extraordinary life; so naturally it was a huge relief when we shared the final WILT converted VO narration and received a unanimous approval from his family. Thank you again to Respeecher! Your professionalism, commitment to detail and excellence surpassed our expectations. Your nuanced work brought Wilt's voice back to life will be cherished in GOLIATH eternally.
Working with Respeecher has provided me to control of where my voice is used, the opportunity to provide consent to my voice being used and receveing compensation.
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