Resources

Here you can find SSFWIKI resources. See our mediatheque for media and glossary for definitions.

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

Visual synthetic human-like fakes

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

Consumer protection

• Dessa.com by Square, Inc. developed e.g. 'Fake voice detection' at github.com - "Using temporal convolution to detect audio deepfakes". Last working capture of dessa.com at archive.org dated 2021-12-16
• 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."
• 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."
• Truepic.com - Photo and video verification platform
• Peerwise.io - Deepfake phishing protection - "Know Who You're Talking To"
• 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."
• deidentification.co - "Same Photo Without YourFaceprint - D-ID protects identities from facial recognition"
• QuantumIntegrity.ch - "A.I. POWERED DEEP FAKE & IMAGE FORGERY DETECTION"
• Deepware.ai - "Scan & Detect Deepfake Videos"
• Syntonym.com - "Anonymize visual data in a GDPR-compliant way to protect people’s privacy."
• Sensity.ai - "Visual Threat Intelligence Platform - The most comprehensive database of detected deepfakes with actionable insights"

Natural-language generation

Established companies in the market

• Arria.com - Arria NLG is a form of artificial intelligence that transforms structured data into natural language.
• yseop.com - "Advanced Natural Language Generation (NLG) AI automation"
• 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."
• AutomatedInsights.com - "Turn your data into clear natural language - Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, a self-service natural language generation platform."
• Retresco.de - "Pioneering Natural Language Technologies" - NLU, NLP, NLG solutions
• vPhrase.com - "Insights from data, in words" - Artificial intelligence software for businesses

Newer contenders in the market

• Narrativa.com - Natural language generation solution - "AI for Digital Transformation - Transforming Data into Human Knowledge in Real Time"
• 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."
• syllabs.com - "Syllabs artificial intelligence generates quality texts automatically"
• 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."
• https://narrativescience.com/ NarrativeScience.com] - "No more dashboards - Data should be understandable for everyone. Start data storytelling with Lexio." w:Narrative Science
• Phrasee.co - "Phrasee is the most advanced AI-Powered Copywriting tech on the planet."
• 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)"
• articoolo.com - "Create unique textual content in a flash - A quick, coherent starting point for your articles"
• Contentyze.com - "Turn Ideas into Content at Scale - Use Contentyze to automatically create marketing content from raw data using Artificial Intelligence."

Speech and voice synthesis

Established companies in the market

• Acapela-Group.com - "Your voice matters ⏤ Experience personalized voices"
• AIspeech.com - only in Chinese
• - Cereproc.com"Explore the most natural and diverse text-to-speech voices on the market!"
• iflytek.com - "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.
• Microsoft Azure at azure.microsoft.com
  1. Text-to-speech - "A Speech service feature that converts text to lifelike speech"
  2. speaker recognition - "A Speech service feature that verifies and identifies speakers"
  3. 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 - "Artificial Intelligence–AI solutions for smarter customer engagement"
• TrinityAudio.ai - "AMPLIFY YOUR CONTENT WITH AUDIO - Trinity enables publishers & content providers to join the audio revolution by turning readers into listeners."
• Cepstral.com - "At Cepstral, Text-to-Speech is our only focus."
• ispeech.org - "Powerful Speech Platform - Text to Speech API, Speech Recognition API, Open Source SDKs"
• NaturalReaders.com - "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 - "Lifelike Text to Speech for Your Customers"
• Vonage.com - "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 - "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 - "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 - "The Future of Speech Synthesis is Here - Brand and customize a voice in just a few clicks."
• LOVO.ai - "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 - "Voice Chat Shouldn't Have To Be Toxic - We enable a safer, more immersive voice chat experience"
• Deepsync.co - "Your Amazing voice meets our remarkable AI - Deepsync is a full-fledged Audio Production technology, that works by syncing your voice."
• Resemble.ai - "Resemble builds Custom AI Generated voices from your speech source." - web and API
• Spik.ai - "'Generate speech from text - Generate voice clips up to 300 characters. Login to generate voice clips up to 1000 characters. "
• Vocaloid.com - "Vocaloid - VIRTUAL SINGERS IN YOUR COMPUTER" - for MacOS and Windows only
• Voicemod.net - "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 - "When Supertone creates, the world listens. - Towards a richer media ecosystem by providing innovative technologies to all creators around the world."
• alta-voce.tech - "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 - "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 - "Audio for every story - Instant audio articles using realistic voices that increase reader engagement and revenue potential"
• Neosapience.com - as of 2020-12-08, the website has a misconfiguration (???)
• Respeecher.com - "Voice Cloning - Create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators."
• Voicepods.com - "Text to Speech. Made Simple. - Convert any written text into speech in 30 seconds." - Free sign-up
• wellsaidlabs.com - "Voice over at your fingertips - Add voice to digital experiences with more control and within budget using our AI powered Studio."
• articulu.com - "Listen to articles from the Web. - A better way to read the internet. Hands free and On The Go."
• Descript.com - "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 - "Your videos, in other languages - Increase your reach with AI that recreates your voice in other languages"
• sonantic.io - "Hyper-realistic Artificial Voices - Create a captivating performance using emotionally expressive text-to-speech"
• Speechify at getspeechify.com - "Less time reading. More time doing. - Listen instead of reading."
• Voicery.com - "Custom text-to-speech voice engines."
• Yokeru.io - Discussing voice AI system for telephone customer service

Video synthesis

• Reface.app - "The Best Face Swap App"

• Comixify.ai - "Turn videos into comics with AI power and share it with friends!"

• Rephrase.ai - "MailChimp for Videos - Use Generative AI to address millions of customers personally, through videos."

• Faceswapweb.com - "Faceswap web is an online tool to swap faces in a video. "

• Recreate.ai - "Recreate is an AI assisted video creation platform that let's you create social media videos in less than 4 minutes"

• Synthesia.io - "Create your own AI video. As easy as writing an email. - With Synthesia you can finally create compelling video content without the need for actors, film crews or expensive equipment."

• Alethea.ai - "Introducing AI Avatars - Unlock the creative power of Artificial Intelligence using the world's first AI Avatar Studio."

• EmbodyMe.com a Japanese company | Products: xpressioncamera.com - "Give yourself a virtual makeover for your video chats and live streams" for MacOS only and xpression.jp - "Your facial expression on anyone's face" - as of 2020-12 iOS and maybe Android coming

Music and sound synthesis

• Adobe Inc.

• NSYNTH SUPER at nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com - "Making music using new sounds generated with machine learning"

• AmadeusCode.com] - "Be More Human. - Amadeus Code is an artificial intelligence technology company developing creative machines for humans to be less like machines."

• Boomy.com - "Make instant music. Reach billions. - Create original songs in seconds, even if you've never made music before."

• Humtap.com - "Interactive AI Music & Video Social Platform"

• Loudly.com - "Loudly Music AI is currently the most powerful Music AI in the world. Trained on a catalogue of 8 million music tracks,"

• WAVE-AI.net - "FOSTERING HUMAN CREATIVITY THROUGH AI - WaveAI uses advanced, proprietary AI and Machine Learning technology to unlock new heights of creative expression". Products Alysia app at withalysia.com for iOS - "Create Original Songs in Minutes" and lyricstudio.net - "The ultimate tool for songwriting & poetry"

• AIVA.ai - "AIVA - The Artificial Intelligence composing emotional soundtrack music"

• AiMi.fm - "Meet AiMi, your personal DJ" - app for iOS

• ampermusic.com - "Music for your defining moment - Create the right sound. Define your narrative. Drive emotion with Amper AI."

• Mubert.com - "Music, powered by AI - Royalty-free music for apps & content makers"

• Popgun.ai Products: Popgun Splash - "Splash - Dive into music. Have fun, make music" for Android and iOS, Popgun Splash Pro for MacOS and Windows - "Make music with AI.". An Australian company

• Endel.io - "Endel - Personalized sound environments to help you focus, relax, and sleep."

Syntheses

• w:Voice acting see Voice acting § AI-generated and AI-modified voice and Voice acting § Automated dialogue replacement
• w:Dubbing (filmmaking) see Dubbing § Automated Dialog Replacement

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

• Speech synthesis § Digital sound-alikes
• w:Adobe Voco
• Google w:WaveNet

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 [
• Lyrebird.ai (listen)
• https://candyvoice.com/ and their eery phone app and other useful services.

GANs

Links about StyleGAN

• https://thisxdoesnotexist.com contains links to sites offering different kind of fakes dreamed up by an AI
• The original https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ or the more unnerving game format http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/

Text syntheses

• See Synthetic human-like fakes § Text syntheses

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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 - DISCOVER THE MOST POWERFUL REAL-TIME VOICE CHANGER
• Clown Fish Voice Changer
• Voxal Voice Changer (Also for Macs).
• MorphVOX Jr (free-of-charge) (Also for Macs)