THE VIDEO SHELF · voice cloning and editing
#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud
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 HN readers recommended 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.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Topic
- voice cloning and editing
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction: [VIDEO] . More technology demos should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
kmfrk on Hacker News · 2017-07
In Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction: [VIDEO] . More technology demo should have unscripted, sincere reactions like that.
kmfrk on Hacker News · 2017-07
In Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]The "Adobe Photoshop for voice" is quite amazing: [VIDEO] (you can skip the first ~third to get to the demo)
BrandoElFollito on Hacker News · 2018-01
In I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly
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