The American technology giant, Meta, has brought to Spain the new AI for voice and sound generation. All people residing in Spain can access Meta's AI to clone voices for free, Yes, they must do it in English. You can access Audiobox from here.
What is Audiobox?
AudioBox, for now, is a demonstration of an AI-based audio creation tool that uses random sampling to generate the audio you want. This means that you can create different results despite entering the same input.
Unlike other artificial intelligences that offer static and repetitive responses, AudioBox has the ability to vary your creations. This is something extremely interesting and represents great advances for countless sound applications.
This demo presents many options for use. We can clone our voice, eliminate background noise, and create a story full of comments, sounds, and immersion.
We can see that artificial intelligence, developed by FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), is very complete and predicts very interesting advances for the industry. Although if you don't have much time or don't want to clone your own voice, don't worry. I'm going to teach you how to use AudioBox, Meta's AI to clone voices.
How to clone my own voice?
Yes you can, and it's really fascinating. With AudioBox you can clone your own voice in a matter of minutes. For the recording to capture your voice perfectly, you must read a small text in English aloud.
I'll tell you, step by step, what you should do to clone your voice.
- Access the AudioBox website.
- At the top of the website, click on the tab «Capabilities».
- read and accept the terms and conditions if you fulfill them.
- Choose the first option («Your Voice») that appears in the carousel.
- If it doesn't appear, do scroll down up to section «Your Voice».
- Pleasure Click on “Record your voice” and wait for the next message to appear
- Before time runs out, Press «Record your reading» and read the text that appears.
- When you have finished reading, and if you are happy with the result, do Click on “Create this voice”. You can repeat the recording if the result does not convince you.
- Once created, you just have to select your voice and write the text you want listen in the box below.
- Once you have the text ready, Press the «Generate» button
Ready, you now have your voice cloned and ready to generate all the phrases you want.
Now, if you want to take advantage of this tool and its capabilities, stay to see how to create sound effects with AudioBox
Creation of sound effects through Artificial Intelligence
As a novelty compared to other Artificial Intelligences, AudioBox processes text to generate sound effects. You can describe the sound you want to generate even with onomatopoeia.
Keep in mind that if you don't like the result of an entry, you can register the same entry again so that another different result is generated. Amazing right?
In addition, If we click on the third tab «AudioBox Maker» we will open a sound editor capable of generating stories full of life in an instant. to prove it you have different default options: tell a knock knock joke, listen to a beach vacation, or fix a rocket engine.
If you are curious about what a story told by you would be like, you will only have to choose the last option “Start from scratch”. In that editor you can create new audios and play with them to create your masterpiece.
Know that the creations that are made from this tool will have a watermark to detect authorship.
Dangers of using AudioBox Artificial Intelligence
Every technological advance in the world of Artificial Intelligence generates a lot of controversy. Sometimes it is due to ignorance and other times it is due to privacy violations.
To clone your voice you must transfer the recordings you make. Try do not reveal personal information during the recordings or creations you make to avoid misuse of that information.
In section Responsible AI Research for Audio From the same website we can read how recognize potential risks, although they claim to have established some security measures to prevent abuse. Some of these measures propose impartiality in matters of gender, religion, race, etc.
Recall that It is a demonstration for educational purposes and the users who use it are responsible for its use.
If you are interested in the world of Artificial Intelligence, I recommend that you come and see What are the best artificial intelligence apps for your mobile.