I Lost My Voice, So I Cloned It With Generative AI
The results blew me away
You don’t appreciate your voice fully until you can’t use it.
I’m a YouTuber, and as a writer I also often use my voice to dictate blog posts. It’s a great way to increase my productivity, and in video content, my voice becomes part of my brand.
That’s all well and good until it goes away.
I sing in a choir, and I’ve been working on a project over the last month that required me to produce over 250 YouTube videos in 40 days. I used my voice a lot, and it wore out. I started to suffer from laryngitis. After an especially vocally-challenging weekend, I could barely speak.
That was a problem, both in terms of my own personal life and in terms of my ability to get my work done.
I wanted to stay productive and keep making videos, but I didn’t want to strain my voice further. So I tried something different; I used today’s powerful generative AI to clone my voice.
The Rise of Voice Cloning
Computer voices used to sound synthetic and awful. To a large extent, the computer voices we hear on a day-to-day basis still do.
No one would accuse Siri or Alexa of sounding realistic. You can tell they’re computers…
