Adobe sat me down and played a short demo video with a matter-of-fact, if a bit boring, voice-over. It was nothing special, but after pulling up a transcript, highlighting the text, and choosing from a list of preset emotions, the vocal performance completely changed. It went from flat to confident, then from confident to a whisper, all in seconds.
Adobe calls it Corrective AI, and it’s one of many features the company will demo later today during its MAX Sneaks showcase, which takes place during the broader annual MAX Creativity Conference in Los Angeles. (Adobe paid for a portion of my travel expenses to attend its MAX conference.) Sneaks is where Adobe shows off future technologies and prototypes it’s working on, and many of these features eventually make their way into Adobe's full creative suite within a matter of months.
During MAX this year, Adobe released generative speech for Firefly, which allows you to not only use several preset voices but also add emotion tags to change inflection. This Corrective AI feature brings that functionality to a more practical workflow. Rather than use a completely AI-generated voice, you can touch up an existing voice performance.
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