Resources

You can find BCM! wiki resources, such as links and media here in one central place. See our glossary for definitions.

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.

Digital sound-alikes

Wikipedia links about 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
• 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/

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)