What is Altered AI?

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Altered AI is a voice content creation platform that uses unique technology to change, clone, and create unique voice performances using advanced AI tools. It has 20 Professional and 800+ Common Voices so that you can change your voice into many different styles, accents, and genders in real time! It's primarily designed for media production, real-time communication, and post-production work.

Here are some of the features Altered Studio offers:

• Voice morphing
• Text-to-speech
• Voice cloning
• Voice cleaning
• Real-time voice changing

Altered AI uses generative AI to enhance voice acting and explore new frontiers in audio storytelling. They also take ethics very seriously by ensuring the protection of digital rights and preventing the misuse of technology.

Who is Altered AI Best For?

Altered AI is a handy tool for many different professionals. However, certain types of people benefit the most from using it.

Here's who Altered AI is best for and some examples of how they might use it:

• Podcasters can use Altered AI to create unique character voices and improve audio quality with the Voice Cleaner. They can also use voice manipulation tools to create high-quality voice performances, essential for engaging podcast storytelling.
• Content Creators like YouTubers can use Altered AI to diversify their audio content and streamline editing. They can generate lifelike voiceovers for videos and make tweaks in the Editor to match their vision.
• Audiobook producers can use Altered AI to create natural-sounding narrations and maintain voice consistency. The text-to-speech feature has voice styles perfect for storytelling, like “Narration” and “Whisper.” They can also use the Voice Cloning tool to produce high-quality audiobooks without the need for traditional voice actors.
• Video game developers can use Altered AI for consistently high-quality character voice performances to streamline production. Altered is driving the democratisation of game development forward!
• Filmmakers can use Altered AI to refine voice performances and make creative edits to improve the acting process for voice creators. For example, they can use the Editor to add silences to adjust dialogue pacing. They can also choose from various AI voices to test accents that best suit their story.
• Animators can use Altered AI to create high-quality voiceovers for their characters. They can experiment with different emotions, accents, and tones to find the perfect voice match for each character!
• Media producers can use Altered AI to streamline audio production across media projects. With Altered AI, they can quickly clean up audio, create unique character voices, and deliver polished soundtracks.
• Marketers and advertisers can use Altered AI to create engaging audio content that resonates with their target audience. For example, they can generate brand-aligned voiceovers for ads and social media campaigns to create a consistent and professional sound.
• Online gamers and live streamers can use Altered AI to add fun and excitement to their streams and in-game personas with real-time voice changes. In real-time, they can switch between different characters or accents during a stream to entertain viewers and keep them engaged longer.
• Language instructors can use Altered AI to provide students with specific pronunciation examples. For example, they can use text-to-speech and translation features to teach languages by providing specific audio examples.
• Corporate trainers can use Altered AI to create clear, engaging training materials with consistent voiceovers. They can quickly produce professional audio for presentations and training sessions, ensuring effective communication across the company.

Altered AI Key Features

Altered AI is user-friendly and packed with tools for AI voice cloning, real-time voice changing, and advanced audio editing. It simplifies the audio creation process, allowing creators of all levels to craft unique voices and perfect voiceovers.

Here are Altered AI's key features:

• Voice Changer for Media Production: Using advanced Speech-To-Speech technology, morph your voice into realistic, humanlike voices. You'll get various vocal styles and accents, such as American or British. This tool lets creators use different voices, allowing one person to play multiple characters and easily switch between languages and accents.
• Voice Changer for Real-Time: The Real-Time Voice Changer offers seamless voice morphing with the lowest latency and built-in noise reduction. You can change your voice in real-time while maintaining tonality and inflection. It functions as a Virtual Microphone, allowing you to adopt new voices, change speaking styles, and protect your identity across various platforms like Discord and Zoom and when playing video games like Fortnite.
• Premium Text-to-Speech: Access lifelike AI voices for professional voiceovers, with 700+ third-party voices. Each voice comes with customizable speaking styles and vocalizations! Combine Text-to-Speech for scalable content with Voice Morphing to perfect renders, all within a user-friendly interface.
• Voice Cloning: Create unlimited, high-quality, private, cost-effective clones of your own voice. You'll never have to pay per voice again for human talent! These voice clones are Hollywood-grade and use a simple desktop interface that handles all voice editing and processing aspects.
• AI Voice Cleaner: Use AI to effortlessly remove background noise, voice fillers, and mouth artifacts while optimizing dialogue pacing for a smooth, professional sound. Enjoy effortless audio cleaning with a single click for noise-free, polished recordings in any environment!
• Voice Editor: Altered Studio's comprehensive voice editor platform is available on the web and desktop. It's great for basic and complex tasks. The Altered Editor integrates advanced tools like Voice Morphing, Text-to-Speech, and Transcription to improve robotic voices. It also comes with features like an Integrated Mixer, Editable History, and Google Drive integration, making it easy to perfect your audio projects!
• Custom Voices: The Custom Voices offered by Altered AI are Hollywood-grade voice replications for projects, even from legacy recordings. All you have to do is provide at least 30 minutes of clean audio. From there, you'll receive a private key to securely synthesize your voice content without needing a recording studio! This tool is excellent for preserving your voice or creating one for your brand.

How to Use Altered AI

Here's how I used Altered AI for real-time morphing, text-to-speech, and audio editing:

1. Sign Up for Altered AI
2. Select Start Real-Time
3. Download Altered Studio for Windows
4. Select Start Real-Time in the Windows App
5. Select Your Input and Output and Turn On
6. Choose Your AI Model and Voice Style
7. Adjust Advanced Settings
8. Select Text-to-Speech
9. Choose an AI Voice
10. Adjust the Style and Tempo and Generate
11. Preview Your Voice
12. Export the Voice to the AI Editor
13. Transcribe the Audio
14. Select the Source Audio Block
15. Apply & Edit Effects

Step 1: Sign Up for Altered AI

I started by going to the Altered AI homepage and selecting “Get Altered Studio for Free.”

Step 2: Select Start Real-Time

Altered took me to my dashboard after signing up for the free trial! In the center, I could do the following:

• Create voice clones.
• Morph my voice in real-time.
• Turn audio recordings into one of the Altered AI's curated portfolio of voices.
• Convert text to speech in different styles and performances.

I could also open the Voice Editor to:

• Transcribe audio files and generate subtitle files.
• Clean audio with the AI Voice Cleaner.
• Import and edit the audio from videos with different effects.
• Translate audio into other languages with Voice Dubbing.
• Combine TTS and Voice Morphing.
• Apply effects to audio.

I was most interested in morphing my voice in real-time, so I selected “Start Real-Time” under “Real-Time Morphing.”

Step 3: Download Altered Studio for Windows

Real-Time Morphing required me to download the Real-Time Voice Changer (available for Windows). I selected “Download Altered Studio for Windows.”

Step 4: Select Start Real-Time in the Windows App

The downloaded Windows version of Altered Studio looked the same as the browser version. After downloading Altered Studio to my computer and logging in, I selected “Start Real-Time” under “Real-Time Morphing.”

Step 5: Select Your Input and Output and Turn On

Selecting “Start Real-Time” took me to the Altered Studio, where I could morph my voice!

At the top, I made sure I had the correct input and output for my device (“Microphone” and “Headphones”). I then selected the “Turn On” button.

Step 6: Choose Your AI Model and Voice Style

I could now select the AI model to morph my voice into! There were six models to choose from, each with four speaking styles: game, whisper, shout, and natural.

Step 7: Adjust Advanced Settings

I could hit the gear icon on the top right to access more technical settings.

It was fun hearing my altered voice in real time and making it sound like different people in various styles. However, I found the output to lag quite a bit (although that could be my computer), and it would have been nice if there were more advanced settings to adjust the pitch, tone, etc.

Step 8: Select Text-to-Speech

Next, I wanted to see what Altered AI's Text-to-Speech feature is. I went to the navigation bar on the left and selected “Text-to-Speech.”

Step 9: Choose an AI Voice

I started by selecting one of the AI voices that were available to me.

Selecting the “+” next to the models opened a window where I had many more voices to choose from!

Step 10: Adjust the Style and Tempo and Generate

After selecting my Altered AI voice, I typed some text in the empty field at the bottom. I also chose the style and adjusted the tempo. There were lots of voice styles to choose from!

I hit generate once I was happy with my script, style, and tempo! Generating my voice would cost 72 tokens of the 10,000 I was given.

Step 11: Preview Your Voice

A few seconds later, Altered AI generated my voice! I hit the play button to listen to it. It sounded realistic enough, but you could still tell it was generated with AI. To make it sound more realistic, I edited the voice with the Altered Editor!

Step 12: Export the Voice to the AI Editor

On the right, I could export the generated AI voice to the Editor, download it, or delete it. I wanted to see what the Altered AI Editor offered, so I selected the icon under “Open.”

Step 13: Transcribe the Audio

Altered immediately took me to the Studio Voice Editor! In the middle were some options to transcribe the file, insert a new recording, text-to-speech, or silence.

Selecting “Transcribe” generated a transcription of my audio in seconds! I could export the transcription by hitting the “Export” icon.

Step 14: Select the Source Audio Block

Selecting the source audio block revealed gave me options to morph my voice, turn the speech into text or vice versa, and more effects (Morph, Speech-to-Text, Translate, Text-to-Speech, Resample, AI Denoiser, AI Voice Cleaner, and Mixer).

Step 15: Apply & Edit Effects

Whenever I added an effect, it appeared in the “History” panel. I could right-click on any effect to delete it and apply and edit the effect in the “Properties” panel on the far right.

For example, I selected the block and hit “Morph Selection.” “Morph” appeared in the “History” panel.

Under “Properties,” I could hit the “+” icon to begin adding voices to start morphing. I could then style the audio to my liking and hit “Synthesize” to morph my voice according to my settings. My samples would appear in the “Properties” panel, where I could choose the one I liked most.

Overall, Altered AI offers robust real-time voice morphing, text-to-speech, and audio editing features. However, I found the real-time morphing to lag sometimes, and editing the audio is pretty technical. Despite some limitations, it’s fun and versatile, making it a solid choice for experimenting with AI voice technology!