AI vocals

AlbertC

How do you feel about this? Anyone tried it yet?

Having stumbled across a YouTube video, as an experiment, I thought I'd give the limited free trail of something called Audimee a go. I think there are a few similar AI voice websites out there.
 
It doesn't actually generate the whole vocal itself from scratch as it were. You have to upload a reasonably okay vocal track (preferably without FX) but then it's converted into the "AI Artist's" voice. There are a number to choose from - male, female and various styles.

I would have previously been quite sceptical about this but I was surprised with the results. 
Here are some short 30 sec clips of the same song - my original vocal first, then two of the free "artist" options available in the trial.

Me - https://audio.jukehost.co.uk/HNaJNVkOpl5sEYXSw3FL1kSv9T6cCN7D
"Jacob" - https://audio.jukehost.co.uk/GPOhJOoZPnxpW3IPM75puM1Iljxw7C0i
"Robin" - https://audio.jukehost.co.uk/eo89ZlMUNGYzwIAFxMxT7OJQZ5fe4qLn

Not sure if there are any VSTs out yet that do a similar job but if not, I'm sure they won't be long coming.

For someone like me who can sing a bit but isn't really a proper vocalist, I think this could be great. I think I'd still prefer to use my own voice generally but it's a very useful tool for songs where my vocal doesn't cut it.

guitarmangler

Woah. That is cool. I’ll be using that. 

Your vocal sounds great, by the way. The other two weren’t better, just different. 

oaf

You might find this interesting
https://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/3552906/#Comment_3552906

Unimprobable

For those of us who can't sing, I've found synth v to be very impressive. I've got it plugged into logic Pro - just play in the melody on keyboard then input lyrics.

Here's the Sound on Sound review https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/dreamtonics-synthesizer-v

and my humble efforts on Kompoz , both with zero, no tweaking to synth v's first attempt.
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https://www.kompoz.com/studio/collaboration/1353162/track/1353164

https://www.kompoz.com/studio/collaboration/1317850

Bezzer

I've been playing with AI vocals as well, very interesting tool although as you say the initial performance is important and by god does it need to be clean. (I used a celeb voice on my K cover challenge entry as a trial).

While I don't think I'd every use them as a lead voice, even without the copyright issues, I think they are VERY useful in a mix of backing vocals for us one-person-bands. Always think backing sound better with a range of tonalities in there. Also been quite useful for demoing tracks to female singers rather than presenting my falsetto vocals.

Like all these tools, great tools but sadly open to abuse commercially.