#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud
What it is
Adobe's VoCo demo from the MAX 2016 Sneak Peeks, co-hosted by Jordan Peele, showing software that changes words in a voiceover by typing new ones.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the early example of voice cloning and audio deepfakes, with some recommending Peele's reaction and others calling the demo fake or never shipped.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2016, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction”
VoCo audio editing demo with Jordan Peele's sincere reaction.
kmfrk, 2017-07 · Recommendation · in “Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]”
“The "Adobe Photoshop for voice" is quite amazing”
Demo of Photoshop-for-voice; skip first third to reach it.
BrandoElFollito, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: adobe voco, voice synthesis, deepfakes, audio editing, jordan peele
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