{"id":136903,"date":"2022-03-15T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ai-voices-include-subtleties-of-speech"},"modified":"2022-03-15T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:04:56","slug":"ai-voices-include-subtleties-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ai-voices-include-subtleties-of-speech","title":{"rendered":"AI voices include subtleties of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-voices-include-subtleties-of-speech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video surprises viewers when it\u2019s revealed that, while the woman on screen is a real person, the main character speaking is an AI. It aims to demonstrate how entertainment studios can leverage AI to create highly convincing romantic encounters. This marks a significant milestone for Sonantic as its technology is now able to recreate subtle emotions and non-speech sounds, while also opening up new creative possibilities for studios.<\/p>\n<p>The voice models, which already express a range of human emotions from happiness to sadness, can now convey subtleties such as flirty, coy, and teasing, amongst other new \u201cStyle\u201d options. They also have the ability to capture non-speech sounds \u2013 such as breaths, scoffs, and laughs. This combination of advances in speech synthesis makes Sonantic\u2019s platform more comprehensive than ever before, helping entertainment studios create life-like performances in record time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman beings are incredibly complex by nature and our voices play a critical role in helping us connect with the world around us,\u201d said Zeena Qureshi, CEO. \u201cSonantic is committed to capturing the nuances of the human voice, and we\u2019re incredibly proud of these technological breakthroughs that we have brought to life through \u2018What\u2019s Her Secret?\u2019. From flirting and giggling, to breathing and pausing, this is the most realistic romantic demo we\u2019ve created to date, helping us inch closer to our vision of being the CGI of audio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video surprises viewers when it\u2019s revealed that, while the woman on screen is a real person, the main character speaking is an AI. It aims to demonstrate how entertainment studios can leverage AI to create highly convincing romantic encounters. This marks a significant milestone for Sonantic as its technology is now able to recreate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}