Lyrebird is a massively impressive AI\u00a0that beats out all of it’s competition with crazy-fast voice scanning and surprisingly accurate results. With just 60 seconds worth of speech samples\u00a0Lyrebird can accurately clone any voice to a mind-bogglingly accurate copy, reproducing accent, inflection and tone for an almost-lifelike replication.<\/p>\n
The AI’s algorithm can cleverly process and manipulate the sounds of speech to translate it into a framework for how that voice sounds in techy terms. This is a massive leap forward from many speech synthesis projects which have seen the vocals\u00a0programmed to create it’s sounds, rather than being able to understand and create it’s own (to an extent).<\/p>\n
Other companies have made major developments in the area, such as Google who have been leading life-like AI voice development with their sophisticated project WaveNet<\/a>. Additionally Adobe have been working on a similar project called ‘Project VoCo’ which allows editing and tweaking of speech similar to how their other programs work on other formats.<\/p>\n However, this Canadian startup blows even major company Adobe out of the water, with Project VoCo requiring 20 minutes of voice samples to recreate a voice, as opposed to Lyrebird’s 1 minute process. The recreations, whilst still tinged with robotism, are surprisingly accurate given the process – check out Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton discussing how impressed they are with Lyrebird:<\/p>\n