Augie helps you to make movies with an AI clone of your individual voice

Aug X launched Augie, an AI-powered video creation platform incorporating a voice cloning function to learn advert copy with out reserving a recording studio. 

Partnering with ElevenLabs, Aug X lets customers document their or another person’s voice and clone it to make use of for different brief movies. The Augie platform, aimed primarily towards entrepreneurs and social media groups, lets folks rapidly add narration, images, textual content, and music to movies with no need to be taught audio and video modifying. 

Jeremy Toeman, founding father of Aug X, stated the corporate needed so as to add a voice cloning function after realizing some folks don’t like talking right into a microphone or recording voice-overs.

“You’d be stunned on the quantity of people that’ve used our voice cloning function that got here as much as us and says thanks as a result of they didn’t like recording narration,” he says. 

In a demo to The Verge, Toeman says customers can both write or add a script to Augie after which use a prerecorded voice (folks must document a brief snippet of their voice saying something) or select one from its library. That voice will then learn the script with the tone, critical, enthusiastic, creepy, and so forth., which will be adjusted relying on the temper of the video. 

Customers can even select from a library of images — Aug X licenses images from Getty — or use AI-generated pictures so as to add to the video. 

Toeman envisions advertising and marketing groups turning round brief movies with out the necessity to ebook their firm spokesperson time within the recording studio.

Augie went on public beta in Could. For now, everybody utilizing Augie has entry to the voice cloning function. Toeman says ultimately, it would restrict video size and high quality and the variety of cloned voices of non-paying subscribers due to the expense of working voice cloning servers with its companions. 

Voice cloning is just not new; Samsung even lets folks use an AI voice to answer calls, and now firms like Aug X are integrating the expertise into extra full-featured companies. After a deepfaked Drake tune that includes an AI-generated model of the rapper’s voice went viral, it helped reignite considerations about copyright and illegally utilizing somebody’s else likeness. 

“We’ve pre-thought what might go flawed, so we’re being actually cautious about who can use the pre-recorded voice to clone,” Toeman says. 

He added that recorded voices, versus those a part of the bigger Augie library, will solely be out there to particular person accounts. So one other individual in the identical group has to rerecord their spokesperson’s voice on their Augie account to clone their speech. Customers can’t add recordings, and the platform will solely settle for voices recorded with a dwell mic. So, no placing your ex’s voice on speaker so you’ll be able to faux a name with a weirdly useful pal gained’t work with Augie.

The corporate can be working with its voice cloning associate ElevenLabs to determine AI-generated voices and movies.