User:Sobsz/Uberduck

Uberduck is an online text-to-speech and video creation service. It offers free access to community-contributed voice clones of various celebrities and fictional characters. The unauthorized voice clones are meant for entertainment purposes, and the terms prohibit commercial or defamatory usage. The website includes a video editor with direct integration to the text-to-speech engine and a gallery of user-submitted images. An API can also be used to programmatically generate videos with custom voice lines.

History
Uberduck was created in 2020, initially as an audio chatbot with custom text-to-speech voices. However, the creator found that "speech synthesis was the most exciting part of the project" and started focusing on it instead. It became popular on TikTok in May 2021 as users began using it in protest of the app's built-in voice being changed.

Alongside regular text-to-speech functionality, support for pitch and rhythm transfer was added on June 30, 2021. Voices supporting this function can copy the intonation of a selected or uploaded reference audio clip.

Uberduck collaborated with visual artist JIMMY and rapper B la B to create a non-fungible token titled "UPLOADED", minted on September 20, 2021, consisting of a track voiced by a synthesized version of the rapper and accompanied by AI-generated visuals.

The video generation aspect of Uberduck was promoted during Y Combinator's Winter 2022 Demo Day, where it was described by the founders as "Canva for programmable video". [i'd mention the yotta savings collaboration before this but i can't find confirmation from a non-uberduck party that uberduck was responsible for it]