Typecasting

Typecast Takes Bold Step Forward in AI Text-Driven Speech, Introducing Cross-speaker Emotion Transfer

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Typecast, a startup that operates AI-powered virtual actor service Typecast, which uses AI to create synthetic voices and videos, today announced its latest text-to-speech innovation: Cross-speaker Emotion Transfer. Based on the work of Typecast researchers and building on its unique emotional style control feature, Cross-speaker Emotion Transfer makes it possible for users to apply emotions recorded from another voice to a user's own unique voice. This approach is detailed in the paper Cross-speaker Emotion Transfer by Manipulating Speech Style Latents, which was accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Key Points: 
  • In traditional emotional speech synthesis, which is used to enable AI actors, all training data must have an emotion label.
  • With Typecast's latest approach to emotional speech synthesis, it solves these problems, achieving cross-speaker emotion transfer, emotion intensity control, and few-shot emotion transfer at the same time.
  • It is now possible to achieve emotion transfer with very high naturalness and emotion similarity, but without changing the speaker's identity.
  • With the introduction of Cross-Speaker Emotion Transfer, Typecast has ushered in a new era, where emotional boundaries are transcended.

Neosapience Brings True Text-Driven Emotional Range and Style Control to AI for the First Time

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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SEOUL, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Neosapience, a startup that operates AI-powered virtual actor service Typecast, which uses AI to create synthetic voices and videos, today announced new, industry-first capabilities that bring an unprecedented level of depth and richness to AI actors. Its text-driven emotion style control feature allows Typecast users to type any emotion imaginable into a script of dialogue and Typecast's AI system will recognize and understand the request using Natural Language Processing.

Key Points: 
  • Its text-driven emotion style control feature allows Typecast users to type any emotion imaginable into a script of dialogue and Typecast's AI system will recognize and understand the request using Natural Language Processing.
  • "Our team has worked relentlessly to push the boundaries of what is possible with AI to create meaningful experiences," said Taesu Kim, co-founder and CEO of Neosapience.
  • We believe that with this latest innovation, Neosapience and our Typecast service will elevate creativity and spark new forms of content."
  • Text-driven emotion style control frees virtual actors to express a full range of emotions appropriately and with nuance, rapidly responding in context as dialogue unfolds.

Neosapience's Typecast Service Breaks New Ground With the First Commercially Available AI-Powered Voices That Rap and Sing Even Better Than Humans

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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AI-powered voice and video technologies are in high demand as audio and video are replacing text-based media, and content providers from YouTubers to Netflix and Disney+ are striving to make their content accessible for global audiences. But, mass production of audio and video remains inefficient in terms of time and cost. This is because audio dubbing and video animation are still extremely labor-intensive tasks; current avatars and virtual humans require real human actors to perform. The cloud-based Typecast service changes all of this by turning any space into a studio. All users need is a laptop and a script or song-- no expensive equipment required-- opening up tremendous possibilities for content creators all over the world. Typecast is also ideally suited for anyone planning to jump into the metaverse.

Key Points: 
  • It has introduced the first commercially available virtual actors that sing and rap in English.
  • The cloud-based Typecast service changes all of this by turning any space into a studio.
  • "We've pushed our technology to the point where virtual humans can really sing or rap with an authentic sounding AI voice.
  • Neosapience's Typecast service is based on these technologies to help content creators to make audio and video without casting human actors.

Neosapience Secures $21.5 Million Series B to Bring AI-Powered Virtual Actors to Content Creators Everywhere

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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Professional actors and newscasters have recorded thousands of sounds and words, revealing their natural emotions and vocal styles.

Key Points: 
  • Professional actors and newscasters have recorded thousands of sounds and words, revealing their natural emotions and vocal styles.
  • Typecast first started as an AI voice actor service, providing 170 virtual voice actors in Korean and English.
  • It will not only allow content creators to create more content with less effort but also execute on our vision of AI-powered virtual actors being accessible to everyone."
  • Neosapience's Typecast service is based on these technologies to help content creators to make audio and video without casting human actors.