how to make an AI voice

How to Make an AI Voice

Audio by Isabel V. using WellSaid Labs

How many times do you interact with devices and content on a daily basis? If you’re like most, a ton. And more interactions brings a need for greater content volume and variety. To keep up, content creators strive to captivate audiences, which has created a paradigm shift. 

Immersive technologies are growing more and more capable of fostering deeper connections. Likewise, the evolution in how we interact with these digital mediums, as well as the modern tools we employ to educate, inform, and entertain, garner increased significance. 

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Your Rights Around Generative AI Cloning

Audio by Vanessa N. using WellSaid Labs

In this era of relentless digital innovation, we’re no longer just spectators but participants in an AI-generated world where our own voices and likenesses can be echoed and altered. While imitation is traditionally lauded as the sincerest form of flattery, in the realm of Generative AI cloning, such duplications often leave a bitter aftertaste. 

Imagine discovering a distorted version of your own creation, or worse, your identity, crafted not by you, but by a machine learning algorithm. This is, in fact, today’s reality.

Take the recent case involving Getty Images. This premier image licensing service found itself entangled in a legal battle against the creators of Stable Diffusion, an AI tool accused of misappropriating Getty’s watermarked photographs. The key giveaway? A slightly skewed, but unmistakable, logo within the AI-generated images (see below for reference). 

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WellSaid Labs’ Approach to Pronunciation: Your guide to Respellings

Audio by Owen C. using WellSaid Labs

This post is from the WellSaid Research team, exploring breakthroughs and thought leadership within audio foundation model technology.


No one sums up the English language better than David Burge: “Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though”.

Let’s be honest—English is weird. Sometimes it seems as if there are more exceptions than there are rules. And even when these rules begin to feel like second nature, you can still be handed a new word to say aloud and have no clue where to begin. 

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what is generative AI?

What Is Generative AI? Exploring the New Frontier of Technology

Audio by Damian P. using WellSaid Labs

At the heart of today’s technological renaissance, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands tall as a primary driver of innovation. This technology uses advanced algorithms to create original content—blurring the line between machine-made and human-crafted creations. But what really makes Generative AI tick? Let’s unravel the inner workings of Generative AI. 

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AI most common queries

AI Curious? Unraveling the Most Common Queries

Audio by Charlie Z. using WellSaid Labs

Ever feel like the digital world is zooming by while you’re just trying to catch a WiFi signal? We’re in an electrifying age of technology, where the whispers of AI and chatbots feel omnipresent.

But let’s hit the pause button for a moment: a YouGov poll revealed that while almost half of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, a staggering 54% still scratch their heads at the mention. So while your LinkedIn scrolls and Slack channels may be abuzz with AI news, it’s important to recognize that the field remains an enigma to many. 

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Deepfake warning signs

8 Warning Signs of a Deepfake

Audio by Jack C. using WellSaid Labs

In an era where our digital avatars often speak louder than our physical selves, the curtain rises on a new act, or better yet tragedy, of technological performance: deepfakes. This remarkable, yet unnerving, technological mysticism, born from the rapid advancements in AI, crafts illusions so convincingly real, they flicker dangerously with deceit.

Unfortunately this is where we find ourselves today. Yikes. 

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Crafting the Future of Automated Customer Service with TTS in IVR Voiceovers

Audio by Alan T. using WellSaid Labs

Who remembers Moviefone? 🙋Ah, the dial-up wizard of the cinema world. Interestingly, it used one of the tech world’s darling of the decade, IVR (Interactive Voice Response). With this technology, movie aficionados could dial in, key in their zip code, and bask in a verbal shower of nearby cinema offerings and times–all sans any human interaction. 

While Moviefone has been lovingly archived in the annals of history, the pulsating heart of its operation, IVR, is still very much alive, continuing to lighten the load for customer service representatives in call centers. How exactly? By swiftly fielding and managing customer queries with nifty automated responses.

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From Pages to Playbacks: How TTS is transforming audiobook production

Audio by Patrick K. using WellSaid Labs

From the intimate rustling of paper pages to the soothing cadence of a narrator, books have undergone a melodious metamorphosis into audiobooks. Today, not only has audiobook usage surged by 70% in the USA in 20221 in every 5 US denizens has let their ears feast on an audiobook within the past year. 

The allure? Audiobooks can be a reader’s multitasking buddy or a beacon of accessibility for kiddos, the visually impaired, and budding linguists. Yet, producing them traditionally can be akin to herding cats: costly and, at times, maddeningly inconsistent. Plus, let’s not forget the onerous task of keeping up with the literary avalanche of new book releases. 

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what are AI ethics

AI Ethics 101: Making machines morally mindful

Audio by Tobin A. using WellSaid Labs

Since time immemorial, ethics have acted as society’s compass, guiding civilizations through the murky waters of moral dilemmas. And in our digital age? It’s no different. 

The chatter around AI ethics has grown from a murmur to a roar. Consider this: submissions to FAccT, a premier AI ethics conference, surged tenfold since 2018, and more than doubled just from 2021.This spike isn’t just statistical white noise—it underscores a collective epiphany. As of 2022, a staggering 77% of companies dabbled with AI. And why not? It’s a game-changer, proving its mettle not just in dazzling feats like autonomous vehicles but also in the humdrum of everyday back-office operations.

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Why do AI hallucinations happen?

AI Hallucinations: Navigating the fiction in our fact-driven assistants

Audio by Joe F. using WellSaid Labs

From deciphering dinner recipes to finding that oddly specific 80s song we can’t get out of our heads, AI’s taken the co-pilot seat in our modern lives. It’s our go-to for work queries, passion projects, and those moments when we just can’t recall the lead actor in that movie. You know the one.

Usually, a well-crafted prompt to our AI sidekick gifts us the golden nugget of wisdom we’re after. But occasionally, instead of gold, we unearth… a rubber chicken? Irrelevant, often hilarious, and utterly fabricated, these “rubber chicken” moments are what we affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call AI hallucinations.

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