Adobe Voco
Adobe VoCo is an unreleased
In 2023, Adobe introduced the ability to edit video by editing an AI-generated transcript of the video in Premiere Pro, demonstrating similar functionality to Voco.[4]
Technical details
As the demo showed, the software takes approximately 20 minutes of the desired target's speech and generates a sound-alike voice including
Concerns
Ethical and security concerns were raised over the ability to alter an audio recording to include words and phrases the original speaker never spoke, and the potential risk to voiceprint biometrics.[1]
Concerns also rose that it may be used in conjunction with:
- 2000s that distinguishing between a human recorded with a camera and a simulation of a human is very difficult.[5]
Alternatives
Adobe's lack of publicized progress opened opportunities for other projects to build alternative products to VOCO, such as Resemble AI and 15.ai, a real-time text-to-speech tool using artificial intelligence.
See also
References
- ^ BBC.com. BBC. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
- ^ "Beta Testing #VoCo". 8 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Is Adobe VoCo dead ?". Adobe Blog. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ "Now in Beta: Introducing Text-Based Editing in Premiere Pro". community.adobe.com. 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
- ^ Rodgers, Julian. "Adobe Voco - Should We Be Afraid?". Production Expert. Pro Tools. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- ^ Thies, Justus (2016). "Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos". Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE. Retrieved 2016-06-18.