AI driven voices for Indie Devs! - SimpleSounds

Published March 11, 2021
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Hello fellow devs and enthusiasts,
We are full-time gamers and part-time entrepreneurs. We know about game dev through our roomies who are Indies. They used to rant about the high prices, low consistency, and problems with iterations on Fiverr and related services for their projects. We spoke some more and realized that getting voices in projects sucked big time. You have to find and cast actors, find recording studios, provide direction and do post-production, and in the end, they had to make multiple cuts from what they had imagined their story to become.


So, we created human-like AI voices that can scream, laugh, cry, and even smile! They can sound out of breath, terrified, scared, disgusted, and show other deep emotions. All you have to do is type your dialogues, select your voice (hero, villain, NPC, merchant, kid, teenager, etc), pick an emotion, and click to export!
Check out a horror story (https://cutt.ly/IzEKTmi) narrated by our AI (one min)


We would love any critical feedback you have on this. Rip our company apart, we promise we won’t get offended. Also, You might have seen this post on multiple other channels and forums, we're trying to get this out to as many interested folks, who will be given early access and help us mold the product better.

We're also posting the same to 'audio' and ‘products’ topics on the site.


P.S. if you're interested, you can sign up for our waitlist - (https://cutt.ly/8zEKAfn) or check out our launch (https://cutt.ly/ezEKHlh)


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vladislavzh

The demo sounds impressive despite quite obvious artifacts in some places. But I am fairly certain that in about 15-20 years such tools will be able to produce very convincing results. Of course, they will never replace real actors, but they will come in very handy for placeholders, background voices or even voicing AI/robot characters.

March 12, 2021 06:16 AM
Danny_SS

@vladislavzh Thank you! We're trying to provide a level of personalization that would be right up the alley for indie game devs especially, short on resources and time.

I'll post more for any more announcements. If you find it interesting, do sign up for the waitlist :P

Thanks again!

March 12, 2021 05:39 PM
a light breeze

Having to export the voices negates the biggest strength of voice synthesis: the ability to handle dynamic text. Imagine a game where the characters can call the player by their real name. Imagine crew AI in a battleship sim telling you how many enemies are approaching from which direction using actual numbers. Imagine voices in a game like Dwarf Fortress, where text is mad-libbed together recursively from dozens of sources.

March 12, 2021 09:43 AM
Danny_SS

Great insight. We're definitely thinking in that regard as well, but you were able to word it up pretty accurately. Looking forward to that level of immersion in video games ? Hopefully, we're the ones bringing that audio revolution. haha!

March 12, 2021 05:41 PM
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