[vunderba]

I remember when Adobe demoed this idea of being able to edit waveforms by the recognized text back in 2016 and it was pretty mind blowing for the time.

https://youtu.be/I3l4XLZ59iw

EDIT: I could also definitely see Audapolis being useful if you could integrate it into a podcast's post processing flow (volume normalization, de-essing) by recognizing certain verbal tics and automatically removing them from the audio such as "ummmm...", etc.

[suchire]

This workflow is exactly what Descript does. Transcript-based editing, filler word removal, noise reduction, volume normalization, Overdub spoken word correction using the speaker’s voice, eye gaze correction for video, etc.

Disclaimer: I work at Descript

[Philip-J-Fry]

What ever happened to that Adobe demo? Was that a real product at any point? It's quite amazing how ahead of its time it was. Now that we have AI making people say whatever we want, it felt like Adobe was on the cusp of that then.

[codetrotter]

I remember people saying at the time that “this is the point at which voice recordings can not be trusted any longer”. And then, like you said nothing happened kind of for a few years until the current AI/ML tech got to where it is currently at.

[jazzyjackson]

and there's still no commercial product for synthesizing video to sync lip movements to edited transcript like all the scary proof of concepts that turned the president into a puppet

Maybe there's not much value in editing what someone said after all

[ipsum2]

This is used pretty often, you probably just don't notice it.

[poincaredisk]

commercial value: no

criminal value... maybe?

There are absolutely scams right now that use deepfakes to trick people.

[krisoft]

> commercial value: no

Of course there is commercial value. The cost of reshooting video materials is huge. You made an advert mentioning 3 features, but by the time the product is about to be released one of them got dropped or even worse changed? Congrats, you need to get the talent and the studio rebooked, you need to find a new tech crew, who need to set up again. Probably things won't cut seamlessly so you need to re-record the whole thing.

[scoot]

Potentially also for syncing lip movement for content dubbed in a foreign language. For me when watching foreign media dubbed to English the discrepancy is very noticeable and quite distracting, no matter how well the dub is written, performed, and edited to match the timing of the original.

[hunter2_]

Yeah, it's a bit like asking why Microsoft doesn't make a BitTorrent client or why Chase doesn't offer a cryptocurrency. The prevailing use cases are just a bit too untoward, even if a few wholesome stories do exist.

[omeze]

HeyGen allows you to do for this in a few ways

[lofaszvanitt]

Were they strongarmed or self censored themselves? Would be interesting to know the backstory.