19 Nov 2025

AI voice?

As many know, I had a stroke in 2013 that left me with a totally poor voice that many find hard to understand. Before my stroke I made quite a few YouTube videos, so I have quite a few samples of what I used to sound like.

My wife has suggested I use these to create an AI voice of me as I once sounded. I have never tried AI for this, but it sounds a good idea. The first stage will be to collect some audio samples from YouTube and then recreate my old voice using an AI tool.

If you know of suitable (preferably free) tools,  please let me know as soon as possible.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Roger

Thorsten Mueller has made a Youtube tutorial how to do this with Piper-TTS. See the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pptxLT_3I&list=PL19C7uchWZeojjI5FUk3qU9jqGB05w5nE
It requires some Linux skills. I have created a Windows-native version to record and prepare my own voice for use in N1MM, based on his work (among others) See https://pe1eec.eu/contest/piper-tts-for-n1mm-offline/