Zohaib Ahmed on Creating Andy Warhol's Voice Clone - Voicebot Podcast Ep 282

Zohaib Ahmed joined us at the Synthedia synthetic media
conference in September to discuss Resemble's work re-creating
the voice of famed pop artist Andy Warhol. A Netflix documentary
was under development that centered around Warhol's diaries. The
creators thought it would be more impactful if the viewers could
hear the ideas and experiences of Warhol in the artist's own
voice. So, they began searching for a synthetic speech provider
that could create a voice clone.


 


Ahmed goes through the creation process and some of the
challenges faced along the way. Plus there are a couple of
nuances that you will find interesting.


 



Zohaib Ahmed is the CEO and co-founder of Resemble AI. He
appeared previously on the podcast in episodes 251 and 103.
Ahmed previously was a lead software engineer at Magic Leap and
Hipmunk and a developer at Blackberry.


 


Voicebot's Eric Schwartz interviews Ahmed in this episode and
Bret Kinsella adds commentary at the end about the evolution of
synthetic speech.