In the rising world of AI, Taiwan has a new AI voice platform. It specializes in creating official versions of Chinese speakers’ voices. A special song featuring the voices of four beloved folk singers has been released to mark the platform going online. Users will be able to put their own compositions and lyrics on the platform, and get them sung by one of these beloved singers within two or three minutes.
Four folk singers collaborated on this new release. But the whole track, from the singers’ voice to the music video, was made by AI.
Li Ming-teh
Singer
I can tell my grandson, “Grandpa sang this song,” and then he’ll say he doesn’t believe it. And I’ll say, “No, really, we recorded it 60 years ago.”
This is the first time these singers have heard their own voices produced by AI.
The singer faces off against her AI rival, showing just how lifelike the imitation is. She says she likes to listen to it.
Fan Yi-wen
Singer
It’s just like my real voice. I don’t usually sing such high ranges, songs in such high keys. So when I heard it, it was very interesting.
Tu Pei-tsen
Singer
It gave me goosebumps. I feel touched. I personally feel it’s very like myvoice’s real timbre.
The driving forces behind the AI music platform are Taiwan AI Labs founder Ethan Tu, and famous campus singer Li Chien-fu.
Li Chien-fu
Singer
It took way less time and money, because, for example, getting a singer into the studio means you have to pay the singer, pay for the studio. All that is a burden on the creator.
Ethan Tu
Taiwan AI Labs founder
In the past, people were always talking about “deepfakes” which were pirate versions and imitations. But we use the same profit-sharing model, and we tidy up the workflows. We’re telling people this could be the future model of the AI voice economy.
Fake voices abound on the internet already. But a platform like this shows that an official AI voice can beat a pirate version. The project gives artists protections and works with a charity for the visually impaired, and gives more creators a platform to make music.
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