You may have noticed that Voicebot has written many stories over the years about synthetic voices, virtual humans, interactive robots, and more esoteric topics like deepfakes and GPT-3s. In fact, you can read over 160 articles covering the rise of these technologies among customers, technological advances, and funding rounds. Many of these articles seemed to be just about disparate technologies. However, it’s hard not to notice that they are often used in concerts. This is because they are part of a single market for new technologies called synthetic media.
The term has been around for some time, but is applied inconsistently and never exhaustively. Voicebot is changing that with our artificial media news coverage, daily newsletter, new space report, and a free online event called Synthedia taking place in September. I would like to invite you to join us for an event in less than three weeks.
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Synthetic media trends, demos and use cases
The event will feature speakers from many of the industry’s leading companies, including Soul Machines, Hour One, Nvidia, Skilled Creative, Respeecher and more. In general, we will look at examples of synthetic media in four key segments: video, audio, images, and text. Often we will talk about a combination of two or more of these technologies (please note, you can read more about our thesis on this topic here: Welcome to Synthedia). You can learn more about the speakers and the program on the registration page.
- Event: Synthedia 1
- Subject: synthetic media
- Date: September 14, 2022
- Time: 12:00 – 15:00 ET.
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Large market focused on conversational AI
Almost everyone has come across an example of a synthetic carrier. A digital Jack Nicklaus from Soul Machines, the Queen of England delivering a fake Christmas message, Andy Warhol or Val Kilmer voice clones in recent documentaries, a story written by GPT-3, a TikTok green screen cover, and a 3D avatar from Ready Player. I, who looks like a gamer, are all recent examples. Today, billions of dollars are being invested in synthetic media and this is changing the landscape of media creation. The most prominent examples are in the entertainment sector, followed by games. However, it quickly seeps into all corners of content creation.
Synthetic media is also often combined with conversational AI technology. Without a doubt, synthetic voices fit well into the conversational AI technology stack. Virtual people also use synthetic voices and often complex dialogue mechanisms. GPT-3 interprets natural language input to produce natural language output. All these technologies have their niche. They are simply more effective when combined. And the synthetic media industry needs conversation designers and developers to make their decisions even more realistic.
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Whether you’re reading Voicebot for Synthetic Media or more general AI and web3 stories, Synthedia obviously suits your interests. If you are here for conversational AI stories, you should be well versed in this market. Hope you will join us in a couple of weeks. Register to attend live or access the video later. Let me know your thoughts on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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