Explore work by academia

https://scholar.google.com
https://www.semanticscholar.org
https://academic.microsoft.com
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
ConnectedPapers.com - "Explore connected papers in a visual graph"
'Crossminds' - Latest Tech Research Videos at crossminds.ai - Discover tailored research & industry updates in the field of AI provided by CrossCircles Inc.
'Topio Networks' (topionetworks.com) is a disruptive industry research platform, utilizing their Carolus AI technology.
Consumerium.org development wiki on Technologies § AI contains resources for learning AI & ML and legal reviews on AI questions.

Commercial

Major source of information has been SyntheticMediaLandscape.com by Samsung Next^{[1st seen in 1]}

Visual synthetic human-like fakes

FaceApp.com ^{[1st seen in 1]} w:FaceApp
Dzomo.ai (as of 2020-12-07 states coming soon)^{[1st seen in 1]}
tangent.ai - using human image capture they offer online beauty webshops for-a-fee services^{[1st seen in 1]}
Prisma-AI.com - "A.I. powered editing app for portrait photos'""^{[1st seen in 1]}
Generated.photos - "Unique, worry-free model photos" fake faces^{[1st seen in 1]}
Rosebud AI at app.generative.photos^{[1st seen in 1]} talkingheads.rosebud.ai fake models
Lalaland.ai - "Artificial human models - Photorealistic yet nonexisting human models for eCommerce apparel webshops"^{[1st seen in 1]}
Gradient.photo - "The next big thing in the world of Mobile Photo Editing" Android and iOS apps^{[1st seen in 1]}

Consumer protection

Dessa.com by w:Square, Inc. develops e.g. 'Fake voice detection' at github.com - "Using temporal convolution to detect audio deepfakes"^{[1st seen in 1]}
Serelay.com - "When you take a photo or capture a video using Serelay’s Trusted Media Capture™ technology we calculate over 100 mathematical values that relate to the capture event and store these for later reference."^{[1st seen in 1]}
Brighter.ai - "Deep Natural Anonymization is a unique privacy solution based on generative AI. It creates synthetic face overlays to protect individuals from recognition, while keeping data quality for machine learning."^{[1st seen in 1]}
Truepic.com - Photo and video verification platform^{[1st seen in 1]}
Peerwise.io - Deepfake phishing protection - "Know Who You're Talking To"^{[1st seen in 1]}
Cyabra.com - "Expose the Truth"
TheSentinel.ai - "Defending Against Deepfakes and Information Warfare - We Help Democratic Governments, Defence Agencies and Enterprises Stop the Threat of Deepfakes through a Leading AI-Based Protection Platform."^{[1st seen in 1]}
deidentification.co - "Same Photo Without YourFaceprint - D-ID protects identities from facial recognition"^{[1st seen in 1]}
QuantumIntegrity.ch - "A.I. POWERED DEEP FAKE & IMAGE FORGERY DETECTION"^{[1st seen in 1]}
Deepware.ai - "Scan & Detect Deepfake Videos"^{[1st seen in 1]}
Syntonym.com - "Anonymize visual data in a GDPR-compliant way to protect people’s privacy."^{[1st seen in 1]}
Sensity.ai - "Visual Threat Intelligence Platform - The most comprehensive database of detected deepfakes with actionable insights"^{[1st seen in 1]}

Natural-language generation

Established companies in the market

https://www.arria.com/ - Arria NLG is a form of artificial intelligence that transforms structured data into natural language.^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.yseop.com/ - "Advanced Natural Language Generation (NLG) AI automation"
https://www.articleforge.com/ - "Using advanced artificial intelligence and deep learning, Article Forge writes completely unique, on-topic, high-quality articles with the click of a button."^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://automatedinsights.com/ - "Turn your data into clear natural language - Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, a self-service natural language generation platform."^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.retresco.de/en/ - "Pioneering Natural Language Technologies" - NLU, NLP, NLG solutions^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.vphrase.com/ - "Insights from data, in words" - Artificial intelligence software for businesses

Newer contenders in the market

https://www.narrativa.com/ - Natural language generation solution - "AI for Digital Transformation - Transforming Data into Human Knowledge in Real Time"^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.naturaltext.com/ - "NaturalText A.I. is the first and only NLP solution that uses unsupervised learning and symbolic, non-statistical A.I. to extract easy-to-understand, actionable insights from long-form text data—and it even explains the logic behind its decisions."^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.syllabs.com/en/ - "Syllabs artificial intelligence generates quality texts automatically"^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://en.ax-semantics.com/ - "Save time & grow your business by scaling content creation. - Our Natural Language Generation software helps you understand data & create meaningful text out of it."^{[1st seen in 1]}
w:Narrative Science https://narrativescience.com/ - "No more dashboards - Data should be understandable for everyone. Start data storytelling with Lexio."^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://phrasee.co/ - "Phrasee is the most advanced AI-Powered Copywriting tech on the planet."^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://visualnlg.com/ - "THE INTELLIGENT DIGITAL EXPERT - BEYOND NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION - Visual NLG is a single platform that analyses data, acquires knowledge and delivers advanced Natural Language Generation (NLG)"^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://articoolo.com/ - "Create unique textual content in a flash - A quick, coherent starting point for your articles"^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://contentyze.com/ - "Turn Ideas into Content at Scale - Use Contentyze to automatically create marketing content from raw data using Artificial Intelligence."^{[1st seen in 1]}

Speech and voice synthesis

Established companies in the market

https://www.acapela-group.com/ - "Your voice matters ⏤ Experience personalized voices"^{[1st seen in 1]}
http://www.aispeech.com/ - only in Chinese ^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.cereproc.com/ - "Explore the most natural and diverse text-to-speech voices on the market!"^{[1st seen in 1]}
https://www.iflytek.com/en/^{[1st seen in 1]} - "CREATE A BETTER WORLD WITH A.I." - makes an interpreter app, A.I. outbound call system, Chinese language learning platform among other things. See w:iFlytek.
https://azure.microsoft.com ^{[1st seen in 1]} Text-to-speech - "A Speech service feature that converts text to lifelike speech" | speaker recognition - "A Speech service feature that verifies and identifies speakers" Custom Voice at speech.microsoft.com - "Build a recognizable, one-of-a-kind voice for your text-to-speech apps, as unique as your business."
Nuance.com ^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Artificial Intelligence–AI solutions for smarter customer engagement"
https://trinityaudio.ai/ ^{[1st seen in 1]} - "AMPLIFY YOUR CONTENT WITH AUDIO - Trinity enables publishers & content providers to join the audio revolution by turning readers into listeners."
https://www.cepstral.com/ ^{[1st seen in 1]} - "At Cepstral, Text-to-Speech is our only focus."
ispeech.org ^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Powerful Speech Platform - Text to Speech API, Speech Recognition API, Open Source SDKs"
NaturalReaders.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Powerful Text-to-Speech for at home, work, or on the go. - Upload text and documents or convert to mp3 to listen to anywhere anytime."
ReadSpeaker.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Lifelike Text to Speech for Your Customers"
Vonage.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Looking for ways to win with better business communications?" - Offers communication APIs, unified communications and contact center augmentation.

Newer contenders in the market

Data-Baker.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Intelligent speech atomic ability, open a new experience of AI speech" - TTS online, TTS offline, voice cloning, emotional TTS, voice customization and more.
BotTalk.io^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Turn your readers into listeners! - BotTalk is a text-to-speech software platform that allows you to convert any web content into the most humanlike sounding audio."
SpeechMorphing.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "The Future of Speech Synthesis is Here - Brand and customize a voice in just a few clicks."
LOVO.ai^{[1st seen in 1]} - "LOVO - Love Your Voice" - "High-quality DIY Online Text to Speech platform for all content creators. Get started for FREE now!" - Lovo Studio and Voiceover API
Modulate.ai^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Voice Chat Shouldn't Have To Be Toxic - We enable a safer, more immersive voice chat experience"
Deepsync.co^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Your Amazing voice meets our remarkable AI - Deepsync is a full-fledged Audio Production technology, that works by syncing your voice."
Resemble.ai^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Resemble builds Custom AI Generated voices from your speech source." - web and API
Spik.ai^{[1st seen in 1]} - "'Generate speech from text - Generate voice clips up to 300 characters. Login to generate voice clips up to 1000 characters. "
Vocaloid.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Vocaloid - VIRTUAL SINGERS IN YOUR COMPUTER" - for MacOS and Windows only
Voicemod.net^{[1st seen in 1]} - "FREE Real Time Voice Changer for Online Games - Voicemod transformer works with VRChat, Discord, Overwatch, Fortnite, PUBG, Skype & CSGO." - Website states that Linux and Mac versions are coming
SuperTone.ai^{[1st seen in 1]} - "When Supertone creates, the world listens. - Towards a richer media ecosystem by providing innovative technologies to all creators around the world."
alta-voce.tech^{[1st seen in 1]} - "we give voice to emotions" - "We design real-time voice technologies - We shape, in real time, the emotions displayed by human and artificial voices to enhance communication."
Speechki.org^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Create your audiobook in 15 minutes - Publish your audiobook free of charge" - Pricing based on character count. Free up-to-10 sentences conversion. (samples)
SpeechKit.io^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Audio for every story - Instant audio articles using realistic voices that increase reader engagement and revenue potential"
Neosapience.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - as of 2020-12-08, the website has a misconfiguration (???)
Respeecher.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Voice Cloning - Create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators."
Voicepods.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Text to Speech. Made Simple. - Convert any written text into speech in 30 seconds." - Free sign-up
wellsaidlabs.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Voice over at your fingertips - Add voice to digital experiences with more control and within budget using our AI powered Studio."
articulu.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Listen to articles from the Web. - A better way to read the internet. Hands free and On The Go."
Descript.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Descript is a collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc. It includes transcription, a screen recorder, publishing, full multitrack editing, and some mind-bendingly useful AI tools."
papercup.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Your videos, in other languages - Increase your reach with AI that recreates your voice in other languages"
sonantic.io^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Hyper-realistic Artificial Voices - Create a captivating performance using emotionally expressive text-to-speech"
Speechify at getspeechify.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Less time reading. More time doing. - Listen instead of reading."
Voicery.com^{[1st seen in 1]} - "Custom text-to-speech voice engines."
Yokeru.io^{[1st seen in 1]} - Discussing voice AI system for telephone customer service

Syntheses

Digital look-alikes

Links about digital look-alikes

A 7D model was made of President Obama with his consent in 2013
A 2016 paper (with videos) on the semi-real-time 2D video manipulation with gesture gesture forcing and lip sync forcing synthesis by Thies et al 2016, Stanford.

Wikipedia links about digital look-alikes

w:Human image synthesis

Digital sound-alikes

Wikipedia links about digital sound-alikes

Other contenders to create digital sound-alikes

As of 2019, these speech synthesis in most use scenarios does not yet fool a human because the results contain tell tale signs that give it away as a speech synthesizer.

https://cstr-edinburgh.github.io/merlin/ - free opensource voice synthesis framework
https://fifteen.ai/ try the app with a text of your choice or listen to pre-computed examples [^{[1st seen in 2]}
Lyrebird.ai (listen)
https://candyvoice.com/ and their eery phone app and other useful services.

GANs

Links about StyleGAN

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ or the more unnerving game format http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/

Text syntheses

See Synthetic human-like fakes § Text syntheses

Protective measures

Voice changers

List of voice changers

Multi-platform

pyvoicechanger is a real time microphone voice changer app for Python 3.6+
SOX is available for all OS and is usually pre-installed on Linux. Sox is a general purpose audio software, so configuration work is needed to enable the voice changers.

Windows

VoiceMod.net
Clown Fish Voice Changer
Voxal Voice Changer (Also for Macs).
MorphVOX Jr (free-of-charge) (Also for Macs)

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