How to quickly clone your voice with TorToiSe Text-To-Speech

Introduction

One of the coolest possibilities offered by AI and Deep Learning technologies is the ability to replicate various things in the real world. Whether it be generating realistic images from scratch or the right response to an incoming chat request or appropriate music for a given theme, we can rely on AI to deliver awesome approximations of the things previously only possible when guided directly by a humans hand.

Voice cloning is one of those interesting possibilities offered by this novel tech. This is the quality of mimicking the voice qualities of some actor by attempting to recreate their specific intonation, accent, and pitch using some deep learning model. When combined with technologies like Generative Pretrained Transformers and static image manipulators, like SadTalker, we can start to make some really interesting approximations of real life human behaviors - albeit from behind a screen and speaker.

In this short article, we will walk through each of the steps required to clone your own voice, and then generate accurate impersonations of yourself using Tortoise TTS in. We can then take these clips and combine it with other projects to create some really interesting outcomes with AI.