I stared at my studio monitors, listening to a sentence I had never spoken in my life.
The cadence was mine, the subtle raspy break on the letter "k" was mine, and even that weird habit I have of pitching up at the end of a thought was right there in the waveform.
It was equal parts thrilling and deeply unsettling.
The Day I Uploaded My Vocal DNA
I decided to test voice cloning six months ago during a brutal deadline crunch for a client's video series.
I fed twenty-seven minutes of dry, clean audio into an AI platform, using a Shure SM7B mic plugged into a Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder.
The audio had no background noise, no room reverb, and zero equalization or compression