Prototype of Photoshop for Audio by Adobe
The Photoshop for Audio prototype by Adobe is known as Project Voco.
The program will allow you to synthesise new speech. You could actually rewrite what someone has said on audio.
At the yearly MAX event by Adobe, the company offers special previews into what they are up to. The Adobe team works on projects that vary in viability. Some of the ideas are out of this world and fancy, while others are genuine future money making innovations. Many of these innovations will come to light in the future.
Included in the latest event, was the preview of Photoshop for Audio using Project Voco. This software was developed by Zeyu Jin. He described Photoshop for audio as something that works the same way Photoshop does for photography.
Editing speech just like images
You will be able to edit speech and include words that didn’t appear in the original audio file. The prototype is already able to rewrite speech and add new words to the speaker’s voice.
Zeyu Jin demonstrated the software by taking a clip of speech and added new text by typing into an edit box. By doing this he was able to add that text into the speech, in exactly the same voice. He managed to re-dub what the speaker had actually said.
You will need around twenty minutes of recorded speech for the engine to accurately add new words to the audio clip. This is just the prototype and the length of audio needed will more than likely decrease with time.
Of course, the idea that technology such as this could exist raises questions about ethics. But, the Photoshop for audio tool could be useful to for podcasters and audiobook-creators. They will be able to post-produce audio edits without having to pay a voice actor for re-records. In that way it puts voice actors out of work a little.
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