AI Voice Generation with Brian Cook, CEO, WellSaid

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WellSaid is at the forefront of AI-generated voices and has been proving bleeding edge voice technology since late 2018.

Brain took over as CEO in January 2024 and is leading the charge to scale WellSaid to new heights. Brian joins me to discuss the voice generation market, use cases, ethics surrounding voice cloning and where all this is headed.

In this episode

00:00 Introduction
00:42 Welcome Brian
03:25 Brians experience
06:25 What drew Brian to WellSaid
11:10 Valuable data
12:40 Finding voice talent
15:22 WellSaid Labs distribution
17:17 Customers using voices
18:55 The impact of this technology
20:53 Potential for scale
22:55 Working with celebrities
24:40 Voice over everything
27:14 Context of language
29:30 Matching tones
33:50 Most popular voice type
35:58 Finding the right Voice
38:25 Voice preferences
39:55 Using different languages
41:56 Speech to speech
46:16 Text to speech
51:07 Writing scripts
57:50 Generating scripts
1:00:24 Outro

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