This could be the first step in a major strike against liberalism
Ever wanted to make Natalie Portman yell obscenities at your neighbors? What if Garey Busey could leave your mother a sexy voicemail on her birthday? Wanted to prank your little brother by forcing him to call his crush and profess his love? Adobe has you covered.
When Adobe released photoshop in 1990, it dreamed of a world where movie studios and photo editors could do in minutes what once took hours. It never dreamed the world would take the digital editor and use it to put celebrity heads on porn star bodies, distort women’s bodies in magazine cover, and create vile memes.
Now, the same company that gave the world Photoshop wants to do for the human voice what it did for the human image—give people the tools to warp it in anyway they see fit. At the Adobe Max Creativity Conference, the company premiered VoCo: an audio editing suite that will allow users to make people say whatever they want just by typing.
Right now leftism thrives on the fact that social structures bottleneck the pathways to success, especially in mainstream media, and nobody is as adept at maneuvering through social structures as rabbits.
Imagine a world where you didn’t need to hire Hugh Jackman to make a movie, or even hire actors, or rent sets, or even operate cameras. Imagine a world where a high school kid with too much time on his hands could write a movie, and then compose it on his computer. He could move virtual people around using software like Halo, he could record from any angle or frame, transition from third person to first person perspectives, he could overlay special effects, and they could even film themselves moving and emoting and have it overlaid on a virtual actor/avatar. He could even speak the lines himself, applying all the intonation nuances he wanted, and then make it sound like anyone. After six months of polishing it he could release the movie online, have it take off virally, and be bigger than Dreamworks or Disney. Now imagine a world with hundreds of thousands of people doing that. Hollywood could never keep up.
You could have virtual newscasts, action movies, sitcoms, even documentaries.
We are heading toward that, and that democratization of media production will change the power structure of the world by robbing a major rabbit warren of a majority of its free resources.
[…] Adobe Can Make Your Voice Sound Like Anyone’s […]
” Imagine a world where a high school kid with too much time on his hands could write a movie, and then compose it on his computer. He could move virtual people around using software like Halo, he could record from any angle or frame, transition from third person to first person perspectives, he could overlay special effects, and they could even film themselves moving and emoting and have it overlaid on a virtual actor/avatar.”
Actually, today, there are already motion capturing software systems which can be controlled by a Kinect. They produce some stupid distortions sometimes, but they work pretty good. Some people work on Kinect for Facecapture. I know that because actually, I already produced my own animated movie that way 2 years ago. The biggest problem is rendering time. If you use mirrors, refractions, depth of field, motion blur etc. you get a render time of several days.
Very cool.
The prices are this way:
Maya with internal simulation for gas and plants: around 4000 Dollars student version cheaper
External Plant simulation: 70$
Water simulation: Commercial licence 4000$ Non commercial license (as powerful): 90%
Snow Simulation : 500$ (needs water simulator to run)
Pixars Renderman: Free Non Commercial license
Kinect Motion Capture: Free – 50$
Kinect Face Capture: 50$
And in the music industry, in japan, today, they already sell songs with no “Singer”, where all the vocals are generated by a software by Yamaha. And this software generated voice, aside from some smaller problems with the voice (for example, the software has huge problems with texts in another language than japanese), really sound like a real human woman singing. (The deficits of that software are definitely “cured” by this new Adobe software)
Wow.
Does this change the voiceprint, as well? Could it lead to falsified recordings that are tied to the target thru the magic of science?
I don’t know – good point.