User:Sobsz/Uberduck
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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Zach Wener, Samson Koelle, William Luer[1] |
| CEO | Zach Wener[1] |
| Services | Voice cloning, programmatic video creation for personalized marketing |
| URL | https://uberduck.ai/ |
| Advertising | No |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 2020 |
| Current status | Online |
Uberduck is an online text-to-speech and video creation service. It offers free access to community-contributed voice clones of various celebrities and fictional characters.[2][3][4] The unauthorized voice clones are meant for entertainment purposes, and the terms prohibit commercial or defamatory usage.[5] The website includes a video editor with direct integration to the text-to-speech engine and a gallery of user-submitted images. An API can also be used to programmatically generate videos with custom voice lines.[u 1][6]
History
[edit]Uberduck was created in 2020, initially as an audio chatbot with custom text-to-speech voices. However, the creator found that "speech synthesis was the most exciting part of the project" and started focusing on it instead.[u 2] It became popular on TikTok in May 2021 as users began using it in protest of the app's built-in voice being changed.[2]
Alongside regular text-to-speech functionality, support for pitch and rhythm transfer was added on June 30, 2021. Voices supporting this function can copy the intonation of a selected or uploaded reference audio clip.[t 1]
Uberduck collaborated with visual artist JIMMY and rapper B la B to create a non-fungible token titled "UPLOADED", minted on September 20, 2021, consisting of a track voiced by a synthesized version of the rapper and accompanied by AI-generated visuals.[t 2][7]
The video generation aspect of Uberduck was promoted during Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, where it was described by the founders as "Canva for programmable video".[6] [i'd mention the yotta savings collaboration before this but i can't find confirmation from a non-uberduck party that uberduck was responsible for it]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Uberduck | LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Weimer, Jackson (2021-05-24). "TikTok Viral 'Uberduck.AI' Text To Celebrity Speech Bot Is Quite Quacking Good". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Fowler, Kate (2021-05-21). "Viral AI Voice Generator Lets You Impersonate Rappers and Past Presidents". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Colbert, Isaiah (2022-01-19). "Dark Souls II X 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin Crossover Is Very Funny Actually". Kotaku. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Macaulay, Thomas (2021-06-18). "This AI lets you generate new verses from your favorite rappers". TNW | Neural. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ a b Silberling, Amanda (2022-03-30). "8 open source companies from YC Demo Day W22". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ "UPLOADED | Foundation". foundation.app. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ UBERDUCK (2021-06-30). "Announcing a brand new feature at uberduck.ai: Pitch and rhythm transfer! [...]". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ UBERDUCK (2021-09-20). "Feel so lucky to be able to collaborate with incredible artists & musicians @JIMMYEDGAR and @1BLaB [...]". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
- ^ "Uberduck | Make cool stuff with AI and text-to-speech". Uberduck. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "Uberduck - About". Uberduck. Archived from the original on 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2022-03-16.