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Whatever happened to Voco, their 'photoshop for voice'? I'm not a frequent HN poster, so I don't know how to 'properly' cite the presentation, but I remember th

• mkl 4y ago
  To find old things like that, use the search box at the bottom of the page: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=adobe+voco https://hn.algolia.com/?q=adobe+voco. Big splash 6 years ago, then nothing. It seems Adobe never advanced Voco past the research project stage ([1] via [2]). I'm guessing they had trouble getting it to work reliably on a wide-enough range of real-world audio. [1] https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition-discussions/beta-testing-voco/td-p/8635263 https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition-discussions/beta-tes... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco
  • wongarsu 4y ago
    I imagine it got shut down, either by their own executives/ethics department, or by outside pressure. It was announced in the same year that the word "fake news" took off. Not the best time to get the world excited for a "photoshop for voice"
    • amelius 4y ago
      That would be the first time for a big company to make a morally sound decision, though.